The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age : being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system adapted for every man's own private use / by Frederick Hollick.

New York : T.W. Strong, 98 Nassau Street. Boston: G.W. Cottrell, 64 Cornhill, 1853.

429 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, plates (part. color) ; 16 cm

"Frederick Hollick achieved massive popularity and occasional notoriety during the mid-nineteenth century as a purveyor of sexual knowledge. A writer, itinerant lecturer, and self-accredited "medical man," Hollick spread his views of sexual form, function, and behavior to thousands of antebellum Americans through his home health manuals. The books that he based on his lectures sold hundreds of editions, traveled west, and were translated into Spanish. ... Following his mentor, the British socialist Robert Owen, Hollick held radical convictions about sexuality, marriage, contraception, and the liberatory potential of scientific education for the masses. But unlike other Owenite lecturers, he eventually claimed a special prerogative as a doctor—in his words, a "Medical Red Republican"—to speak publicly about these topics."--April Haynes, "The Trials of Frederick Hollick" (Journal of the Historty of Sexuality 12.4 (2003), 543-574), p. 545

Electronic reproduction. Atlanta, Ga.: Emory University Digital Library Publications Program, 2013. Emory Digital Library

This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.