The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (36 page)

muscle beaters,
16
,
68
,
71

Mustio.
See
Moschion

National Home Journal
(magazine),
101
,
107
,
173

Needlecraft
(magazine),
107

Nelson, Katherine,
65

neurasthenia,
3
,
35
–36,
40
–41,
45
,
58
,
78
–80,
83
–84

Nichols, Mary G. and Thomas L.,
35
,
57
,
71
–72,
79

nuns,
27
–28,
58

nymphomania,
32
–34,
37
–38,
53
,
57
,
83

Oliver, W.B.,
75

orgasm

female,
48
–66

in coitus,
44
,
49
–50,
56
,
112
–13,
118

faking,
63
,
117
–19,
168
n

function of,
6
,
145
n

hysterical paroxysm,
3
,
7
,
9
,
26
,
32
,
39
,
51

in literature,
6

vaginal versus clitoral,
62
,
109
,
112
,
116
,
118

male,
48
–49,
55
,
113
See also
paroxysm

Oughourlian, Jean-Michel,
47

Our Bodies, Our Selves
,
80

ozone,
88
,
108

Paracelsus,
2

paralysis,
44
,
143
n

Paré, Ambroise,
2
,
9
,
26
,
52
–53,
69
,
71
,
89

paroxysm, in hysteria,
3
,
7
–9,
11
,
23
,
24
,
26
,
31
–32,
34
,
39
,
42
,
44
,
51

passionlessness.
See
anesthesia

Pechey, John,
30
,
112

percuteur,
94

pessaries,
29
,
69

photography, of patients,
40

physical therapy,
68
,
83

Pinel, Philippe,
2
,
34

Plato,
8
,
23
–24

Pope, Curran,
36
,
77
,
79
–80

Popular Mechanics
(magazine),
108

pregnancy and childbirth,
37
,
40
,
42
,
50
–53,
57
,
60
,
72
–73,
84
,
99
,
111
,
115
–16,
129
n,
145
n

Priessnitz, Vincenz,
73
,
76

pronatalism,
9
,
112

prostitution,
37
,
53
,
55
,
58
,
61
,
110
,
113

Pseudo-Albertus,
25

Ptolemy,
50

Raciborski, Adam,
60

railroad travel,
89
,
91
,
159
n

Raulin, Joseph,
33

Redbook
(magaine),
122

Reich, Wilhelm,
45
,
115

rest cure.
See
Weir Mitchell, Silas

Reuben, David,
112
,
128
n

Review of Reviews
(magazine),
103

Reynolds, David,
82
–83

Rhazes,
2
,
25
–26

Riverius,
27

Roberts, Celia,
117

rocking chairs.
See
chairs, rocking

Rockwell, Alphonso,
93

Rodrigues de Castro, Estevão,
2

Sadd, Susan,
118

Sahli, Nancy,
172

Saint Médard,
33

Salpêtrière,
35
,
40
,
42
–45,
75
,
91
,
93
,
94
,
130
n,
173

saws, water-powered,
68

Schall and Son (instrument manufacturers),
93

Scoutetten, Henri,
13
,
172

Sears, Roebuck and Company,
104
–5

Segell, Michael,
118

self-selection, in scientific studies,
64
,
119

semen or seed

female,
7
,
8
,
24
–27,
52

male,
24
,
52

sewing machines,
57
,
59
,
90
,
100

Shew, Mary Louise,
78

Shoemaker, John,
86
–87

Shorter, Edward,
22
,
111

Simenon, Georges,
72

Sims, James Marion,
58
–59

Sklar, Kathryn,
77
–78

Slavney, Phillip,
171

Smith, A. Lapthorn,
83

Smith, D. T.,
98

Smith, E. H.,
57

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll,
45
–46

Smollett, Tobias,
13
,
73

Snow, Mary L.H.A.,
16
,
17
,
19
,
91

Society for the History of Technology,
xi
,
xv

Soranus of Ephesus,
1
,
23
,
51
,
89

spas,
72
–81.
See also
douche, hydrotherapeutic; hydrotherapy

speculum,
10
,
58
,
113

sperm.
See
semen or seed

steam-powered vibrators.
See
Taylor, George; vibrator, models, steam-powered

Stopes, Marie,
65

Strasser, Susan,
109
–10

Stuart, James,
76

subfumigation,
69

suffocation of the mother,
12
,
26
,
28
,
30
.
See also
hysteria

Swedish movement,
14
,
77
,
103
,
105

Swedish Vibrator Company,
103

Swetlow, George,
45

swings,
8
,
12
,
23

Sydenham, Thomas,
5
,
31
,
89

Symons, Donald,
48

syncope,
8
,
23
,
136
n

Tabori, Paul,
109

tampons,
113

Tavris, Carol,
49
,
118

Taylor, Charles,
60

Taylor, George,
14
–15,
77
,
93

Thomas, Theodore Gaillaird,
55
,
70

toothbrush, masturbation with,
166
n

Tourette, Gilles de la,
39
,
55
,
75

Trail, Russell Thacher,
5
,
38
,
57
,
90
–91

trémoussoir,
68

Tripier, Auguste E. P.,
2
,
38
–39,
86

Trotula,
24

vagina,
33
,
62
,
69
,
83
–86,
112