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From Pat Deveney's database:
Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. This was a strange mixture of testimonials for the Footes' medical practice, nostrums and electro-magnetic devices, advocacy of proto-eugenics, birth control and the "right to be born well," reform politics, feminism and opposition to "Comstockery," and the then current views on sexual abstinence and continence as promoting health. The publisher, Foote's alter ego, published a vast array of similar productions and works by the likes of |
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| Dr. Foote's Health Monthly B12 N11 Nov 1887 | |
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Dr. Foote's Health Monthly was the health-reform paper of Edward Bliss Foote, the New York hygienic physician and author of 'Plain Home Talk.' Its columns argue for rational dress, expose adulterated cosmetics and hair dyes, and campaign against 'iron-clad' medical licensing laws that Foote saw as monopoly medicine. The period's borderline sciences surface lightly — phrenology in the 'faculties' and Gall's cerebral map, animal magnetism and Reichenbach's 'odic' force — but the paper's spine is hygiene, sanitary reform, and medical liberty. It belongs to nineteenth-century American health reform more than to any esoteric current. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Sexual Elements: Continence, Free Love, Regeneration, and Sex Magic | Women's Rights and Feminism |
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