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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3327
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 2:41 pm: | 
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Dr. W.C. Lispenard - allegedly the man under whom Tumblety was apprenticed in Rochester in the late 1840s - published a number of books in the 1850s. I've only seen one of them, the 1854 edition of his "Practical Private Medical Guide". It was also published in 1858, and I understand in that edition Lispenard reveals that he is actually one and the same as Dr. Ezra J. Reynolds.
Regardless, here's a few scans of the 1854 edition as well as the index to give you an idea of the contents. It seems to me that this was exactly the sort of publication Tumblety was accused of selling while a boy on the canal boats in Rochester - not "pornography" in the modern sense but certainly explicit for its time, and of the type that Comstock would have suppressed.
Among other things, Lispenard argues that abortion should be legal and a woman's choice, and he suggests that while masturbation is a "wicked" practice, it is nevertheless occasionally necessary in moderation to expel excesses of seminal fluid.
Stephen P. Ryder, Exec. Editor
Casebook: Jack the Ripper
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Natalie Severn
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Severn
Post Number: 2635
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 3:29 pm: |
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Thanks,Stephen for posting these scans of Dr Lispenard"s Medical Guide and telling us a bit about this remarkable man.
Must look up some more about him!
Natalie |
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