On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females

Name: On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females
Author: Isaac Baker Brown

by Isaac Baker Brown

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Project Gutenberg

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United Kingdom: Robert Hardwicke, 1866.

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Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2021-07-27

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Public domain in the USA.

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Clitoridectomy

About the author

Isaac Baker Brown

1812–1873

A controversial Victorian gynecologist and surgeon, he became well known in his day for his work in women’s medicine and is now remembered for promoting harmful procedures that have since been condemned. His life offers a striking look at the ambitions and blind spots of 19th-century medicine.

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