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Moses Scholtz
1875–1942
A physician-writer from the early 20th century, he is best known for bringing medical advice on men's sexual health to a general audience. His work reflects both the educational aims and the social attitudes of its era.
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About the author
Working as a doctor as well as an author, Moses Scholtz published Sex Problems of Man in Health and Disease in 1916. Contemporary editions of the book identify him as chief of clinic and clinical instructor in dermatology and syphilology at the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati.
His writing set out to explain male sexual health in clear, practical terms for non-specialist readers. That made his book part medical guide and part social document, showing how physicians of the period tried to discuss subjects that were often treated as private or taboo.
The surviving record available here is limited, so it is safest to remember him chiefly as a medical author whose work sits at the crossroads of public health, popular education, and early 20th-century ideas about sex and morality.