Edward Bliss Foote Explained
Edward Bliss Foote (February 20, 1829 - October 5, 1906) was an American medical doctor, writer, and advocate for birth control.[1] [2] [3]
Biography
Edward Bliss Foote was born in Cleveland on February 20, 1829.[4]
In 1858, he published Medical Common Sense, which contained frank discussion of sexual health for the general public.[5] He was subsequently convicted under the Comstock Act and forced to remove information about birth control from the book. He was a co-founder of the Free Speech League.
He died in Larchmont, New York on October 5, 1906.[6]
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- Medical Common Sense: Applied to the Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases and Unhappiness in Marriage (1864)
- Science in story : Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey (1874)
- Plain Home Talk, Embracing Medical Common Sense (1880)
- A Fable of the spider and the bees : verified by the facts and press and pulpit comments which should command the serious attention of every American citizen (1881)
- Dr. Foote's replies to the Alphites : giving some cogent reasons for believing that sexual continence is not conducive to health (1883)
- The radical remedy in social science, or, Borning better babies through regulating reproduction by controlling conception : an earnest essay on pressing problems (1886) - Written by his son, E.B. Foote Junior.
- Dr. Foote's Hand-Book of Health-Hints and Ready Recipes (1888)
- Dr. Foote's Sexual physiology for the young (1892)
- Dr. Foote's new book on health and disease : with recipes, including sexology (1903)
- Dr. Foote's new plain home talk on love, marriage, and parentage. A fair and earnest discussion of human, social, and marital relations (1904)
- Dr. Foote's home cyclopedia of popular medical, social and sexual science : embracing his new book on health and disease ... also embracing Plain home talk, on love, marriage, and parentage ... (1906)
- Human Wonders Freaks and Diseases (1892)
Notes and References
- Cirillo VJ. (1973) Edward Bliss Foote: pioneer American advocate of birth control. Bull Hist Med. 1973 Sep-Oct;47(5):471-9.
- Foote, Edward Bliss. American national biography. v. 8 (1999)
- Wood, Janice Ruth (2008) The struggle for free speech in the United States, 1872-1915 : Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and anti-Comstock operations, Routledge
- Book: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans . IV . Rossiter . Johnson . John Howard . Brown . American Biographical Society . Boston . . 1906 . 2022-03-23 . Internet Archive.
- Rabban DM. The Free Speech League, the ACLU, and Changing Conceptions of Free Speech in American History. Stanford Law Review. 1992. 45. 1. 67–68. 10.2307/1228985. 1228985.
- News: October 6, 1906 . Died. . The New York Times . 9 . 2022-03-23.
