Timeline: Medical Literature and LGBT People: 1800-1899

Chronological Bibliography of Works by Doctors and Psychologists on the Subject of Sexual and Gender Non-Conformity

See also: Timeline: Treatment of LGBT People by Doctors and Psychologists

This list includes the citations from From Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976), Bibliography: II Treatmemt" 1884-1974", pages 596-598 and "Notes", pages . It also includes the medical literature cited in the notes from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983), pages 689-697.

Chronological Bibliography

Listed earliest to latest:

1866, August

Buck, W. D. "A Raid on the Uterus," New York Medical Journal, vol. 5 (August 1866), p. 464. In an extract from an address in 1866 by Dr. W. D. Buck, President of the New Hampshire State Medical Society, the doctor says: "A distinguished surgeon in New York city, twenty-five years ago [1841], said, when [Guillaume] Dupuytren's operation for relaxation of the sphincter ani was in vogue, every young man who came from Paris found every other individual's anus too large, and proceeded to pucker it up. The result was that New York anuses looked like gimlet-holes in a piece of pork." Buck goes on to say that the uterus, also, is being subjected to "surgical operations, and is now-a-days subject to all sorts of barbarity from surgeons anxious for notoriety." His statement, which bears further analysis, seems aimed at primitive abortion and birth control measures. A brief biography of Dupuytren is in John Talbott, A Biographical History of Medicine (N.Y.: Grune & Stratton, 1970), p. 342-44. Jonathan Ned Katz thanks Stephen W. Foster and Dennis Lampkowski for help with this research.

1881, February

Dr. William Dickinson. "A Case of Sodomy." St. Louis [Missouri] Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. 40. no. 2. pp. 196-97.

1881, August 20

Dr. E. T. Spitzka. "A Historical Case of Sexual Perversion." Chicago Medical Review, vol. 4. no. 4. pp. 378-79. On Lord Cornbury.

1882, June 23

Dr. William A. Hammond delivered paper: "The Disease of the Scythians (Morbus Feminarum) and Certain Analogous Conditions." Published: American Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, vol. I. no. 3 (Aug. 1882). pp. 339-55.

1882, July

Dr. G. Alder Blumer. "A Case of Perverted Sexual Instinct. (Contrare [sic] Sexualemphindung)," American Journal of Insanity. vol. 39. pp. 22-35.

1882

Dr. Henry N. Guernsey. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects (Philadelphia: Davis). pp. 80-83 of LGBT interest. Numerous later editions.

1883, March

Dr. William A. Hammond. Sexual Impotence in the Male (New York: Bermingham. 1883); expanded ed. Sexual Impotence in the Male and Female (Detroit: George S. Davis. 1887; reprinted New York: Arno Press. 1974), pp. 55-70 of LGBT interest; paging identical to 1883 ed.

1883, April

Drs. J. C. Shaw and G. N. Ferris. "Perverted Sexual Instinct." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, vol. 10. no. 2. pp. 185-204. Casper's Vierteljahrschrift, 1852 is the earliest source cited here on sexual perversion; see p. 186. This was the German Johann Ludwig Casper discussed by Bullough in Sexual Variance, pp. 590, 628 n. 11; 638, 670 n. 9. For Westphal see backnote 14. p. 682.

1883

Dr. James G. Kiernan reported: "The elopement of a married woman of Brandon, Wisconsin, with a young girl, in 1883, led to a discovery of a similar case [apparently, a case in Belvidere, Illinois]. The couple were 'married' by a minister and set up in life for themselves." (See 1892, May, Kiernan, p. 208 in original document.)

"The allegations which so often appear in divorce cases that a certain woman has alienated the wife's affections are an indication that cases of this type [love-affairs between women] are far from infrequent"; see Kiernan, 1888, Dec., page 171 in original document).

1884, ,January

Dr. James G. Kiernan, "Insanity. Lecture XXVI.--Sexual Perversion." Lecture presented January 1884 is published. Detroit Lancet, vol. 7, no. 11, May 1884, pp. 481-84. Kiernan discussed Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater.

M., L. H., "Chicago Medical Society," Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner, vol. 48 (March 1884), pp. 263-65.

1884, April

E. J. H., "Correspondence," Alienist and Neurologist (St. Louis, Missouri), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 351-52. The author wrote in response to a paper by "Dr. Rice" on "Sexual Perversion." This is probably a mistaken reference to the article by Dr. Wise, Jan. 1883) about Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater; see Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976), pp. 221-23.

1884, May

Dr. James G. Kiernan, "Insanity. Lecture XXVI.--Sexual Perversion." Lecture presented January 1884 is published. Detroit Lancet, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 481-84. Kiernan discussed Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater.

1884, July 19

[Dr. George F. Shrady], "Perverted Sexual Instinct," Medical Record (New York), vol. 26, pp. 70-71.

1884, July

Dr. B. Salemi Pace [review of Dr. P. Moreau's (de Tours) book On Aberrations of the Genesic Sense (Paris, 1880), translated by Joseph Workman of Toronto, with introductory comments. Alienist and Neurologist (St. Louis, Missouri), vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 367-85.

1884

Dr. George M. Beard, Sexual Neurasthenia. Its Hygiene, Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, With a Chapter on Diet for the Nervous (New York: Treat), pp. 98-107 of LGBT interest. Jonathan Ned Katz thanks George Chauncey for providing a photocopy of this article. On Beard's renown see John S. Haller ,Jr., and Robin M. Haller, The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America (New York: Norton, 1977).

1885, April 18

Dr. Charles K. Mills. "A Case of Nymphomania, With Hystero Epilepsy and Peculiar Mental Perversions--The Results of Clitoridectomy and Oophorectomy--The Patient's History As Told by Her-Self," as reported by Dr. William H. Morrison, Philadelphia Medical Times, vol. 15, pp. 534-40.

1885, November 18

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, "Christmas Carnival In The New York Stock Exchange" (illustration), p. 845 in R. Wheatley, "The New York Stock Exchange," vol. 71, no. 426, pp. 829-53. I thank John D'Emilio for this reference.

1886, August 14

Dr. Randolph Winslow, "Report of an Epidemic of Gonorrhea Contracted from Rectal Coition." Medical News (Philadelphia), vol. 40, pp. 180-82.

1886, November

Drs. Philip Leidy and Charles K. Mills, "Reports of Cases of Insanity from the Insane Department of the Philadelphia Hospital; Case III.--Sexual Perversion." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (New York) vol. 13, no. II, pp. 712-13.

1888, October

[Dr. Richard] von KrafftEbing, "Perversion of the Sexual Instinct.--Report of Cases." Translated by H. M. Jewett. Alienist and Neurologist (St. Louis, Missouri), vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 565-81.

1888, November

Dr. James G. Kiernan, "Sexual Perversion and the Whitechapel Murders." Medical Standard (Chicago), vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 129-30 (reprinted from Chicago Medical Society Transactions).

1888, December

Dr. James G. Kiernan, "Sexual Perversion." Medical Standard, vol. 4, no. 4 (Dec. 1888), pp. 170-72. Kiernan says: "A recent incarceration of a burglar in the Madison, Iowa, penitentiary, led to the revelation of a like case [as that of the elopment and marriage of two women in 1883, in Brandon, Wisconsin]. (See 1892, May, Kiernan, p. 208 in original document.) <?>

Dr. E. C. Spitzka, "The Whitechapel Murders: Their MedicoLegal and Historical Aspects." [The Jack the Ripper Murders.] Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, vol. 13, no. 12, December 1888, pp. 763-78. References to sexual "inversion" p. 765; Julian Chevalier's Inversion of the Sexual Sense, p. 768; "paederasts" and lust murder, p. 773 n. 22; Lord Cornbury, p. 775; Numa Numantius, p. 778; Princess Lamballe and Marie Antoinette, <page?>.

1889, September 7

Dr. G. Frank Lydston, "Clinical Lecture. Sexual Perversion, Satyriasis and Nymphomania," Medical and Surgical Reporter (Philadelphia), vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 253-58. Continued, no. II (Sept. 14, 1889), pp. 281-84.

1889, September 7 and 14

Lydston, G. Frank. "Sexual Perversion, Satyriasis and Nymphomania," Medical and Surgical Reporter. Vol. 61, no. 10 (Sept. 7,1889): p. 253-58. (P. 253.) Vol. 61, no. II (Sept. 14, 1889): 281-85. A lecture delivered at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons. Although he discusses male and female homosexuality, Lydston makes no specific recommendation for treatment. But since he links homosexuality with satyriasis and nymphomania, there is an unspoken suggestion that it should be similarly treated; for the two "perversions" of which he speaks Lydston suggests "removal of irritation of the sexual apparatus," "anaphrodisiac remedies," "attempts to restrain sexual excesses, or to break the habit of masturbation." But if the "disease" is organic, it is probably incurable and requires more radical treatment: "In women, extirpation of the ovaries, or the procedure of Mr. Baker Brown--clitoridectomy--may be performed. Howe recommends the application of the actual cautery to the back of the neck. Basing this treatment upon the theory that the disease takes its origin in over-excitation of the nerve fibres of the cerebellum or some of the ganglia in the neighborhood, he also suggests blisters and setons to answer the same purpose. Dry cupping to the nucha is also serviceable. Means to restore the general health are always indicated. In the severe cases of the maniacal form of excessive sexual desire the asylum is usually our only recourse".

c.1890

Dr. Charles Torrence Nesbitt on "sexual perverts" in New York City around 1890. See his Papers, Duke University Library; for a photocopy of the library card file on Nesbitt, which includes a brief biographical summary, Jonathan Ned Katz thanks Paul I. Chestnut, Assistant Curator for Reader Services. Katz also thanks Dennis Lampkowski for informing him of Nesbitt's Papers, which are listed and described in the Library of Congress Catalog of Manuscripts.

1891, August 15

Dr. Charles L. Dana, "Clinical Lecture. On Certain Sexual Neuroses," Medical and Surgical Reporter (Philadelphia) vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 241-45.

1892, January

Dr. Graeme M. Hammond, "The Bicycle in the Treatment of Nervous Diseases," Journal of Neroous and Mental Diseases, vol. 17, no. I, pp. 3646. For Hammond's "masturbation drawers" see Dana, 1891, Aug. 15, p. 244 in original; Jonathan Ned Katz thanks Bert Hansen for informing him of this document.

1892, February

Dr. H. C. Hughes; suicide in St. Louis, Missouri; see 1893 Oct.

1892, May

Dr. James G. Kiernan, "Responsibility in Sexual Perversion," Chicago Medical Recorder, vol. 3, pp. 185-210; read before the Chicago Medical Society, March 7, 1892. Discussed case described by Dr. Wise (Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater and her wife; see n. 13, p. 690.

1892, November

Dr. Irving C. Rosse, "Sexual Hypochondriasis and Perversion of the Genesic Instinct," Journal of Neroous and Mental Disease, vol. 17, no. II, pp. 795-811; read at Medical Society of Virginia, Allegheny Springs, Sept., 1892; partial reprint GAH pp. 41-42; also in Virginia Medical Monthly, vol. 19 (1892), pp. 633-49.

1893

Krafft-Ebing, R. von. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct. A Medico-Legal Study. Authorized trans. of the 7th enlarged and rev. German ed. by Charles Gilbert Chaddock (Phila.: F. A. Davis, 1893). Material on treatment of contrary sexual instinct.

1893, February 4

"Removal of the Ovaries as a Therapeutic Measure in Public Institutions for the Insane," Journal of the American Medical Association (Chicago), Feb. 4, 1893, p. 135-37. There may be an earlier article on this in January, in the same journal. Dr. Joseph Price mentioned: p. 136-37. Also see "Domestic Correspondence," same, Feb. 18, 1893, p. 182-83. For comment on this article see Dr. F. E. Daniel (1893) on OutHistory.org.

1893, August

Daniel, F. E. "Castration of Sexual Perverts," Texas Medical Journal (Austin), Aug. 1893: 255-71. Reprinted in Texas Medical Journal. Vol. 27, no. 10 (April 1912): p. 369-85· A note (p. 369) adds: "Under the title, 'Should Insane Criminals or Sexual Perverts be Permitted to Procreate?' this paper was read at the Joint Session of the World's Columbian Auxiliary Congress--Section of Medical Jurisprudence--and the International Medico-Legal Congress, August 16th, 1893, and also before the American Medico-Legal Society, New York, October 11th, 1893, and published in the 'Medico-Legal Journal' for December, and in the 'Psychological Bulletin,' New York." Dr. Daniel is identified in the 1912 reprint as the editor of the Texas Medical Journal.

1894, May

Kiernan, James G. "Insanity. Lecture XXVI.-Perversion," Detroit Lancet. Vol. 7, no. II (May 1884): p. 481-84. (P. 483-84.)

1894, June

Kiernan, James G. "Psychical Treatment of Congenital Sexual Inversion," Review of Insanity and Nervous Disease. Vol. 4, no. 4 (June 1894): p. 293-95·

1895

Schrenck-Notzing, Albert von. Therapeutic Suggestion in Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct. Authorized trans. from the German by Charles Gilbert Chaddock. Phila.: F. A. Davis, 1895.

1895, March

Raffalovich, Marc Andre. "Uranism, Congenital Sexual Inversion. Observations and Recommendations ... " Trans. C. Judson Herrick. Journal of Comparative Neurology. Vol. 5 (March 1895): p. 33-65. (P. 33-34,36-37,42,52.)

1895, April

Ellis, Havelock. "Sexual Inversion in Women," Alienist and Neurologist. Vol. 16, no. 2 (April 1895): 141-58. (P. 158.)

1896, April

Talbot, E. S., and Ellis, Havelock. "A Case of Degenerative Insanity, with Sexual Inversion, Melancholia, following Removal of Testicles, Attempted Murder and Suicide," Journal of Mental Science. Vol. 42, no. 177, new ser. no. 177 (April 1896): p. 340-44 (Le. 46-erroneous pagination in original). (P. 341-44.)

1896, July

Ellis, Havelock. "A Note on the Treatment of Sexual Inversion," Alienist and Neurologist. Vol. 17 (July 1896): p. 257-64. (P. 258-59.)

1897

Ellis, Havelock, and Symonds, John Addington. Sexual Inversion. 1st English ed. London: Wilson and Macmillan, 1897; photo reprint, N.¥.: Arno, 1975· (P. 73.)

1899

Quackenbos, John Duncan. "Hypnotic Suggestion in the Treatment of Sexual Perversions and Moral Anaesthesia: A Personal Experience," Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society. 1899: p. 69-91. (P. 69, 72, 75, 78-80.) <comments />