e/James Graham (sexologist)

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has gloss	eng: Dr James Graham (1745–1794) was a pioneer in sex therapy with a genius for spectacle, best known for his electro-magnetic musical Grand State Celestial Bed. It was designed to make the feeble fertile and produce perfect babies. For several centuries Graham was dismissed as a quack, but he is better understood as a medical entrepreneur. Quackery, in the context of eighteenth-century medicine, is best defined by a practitioner’s advertising techniques and geographical mobility rather than their medical skills or success. Graham was certainly an expert in “puffing” himself, but he also genuinely believed in the efficacy of his unusual treatments.
lexicalization	eng: James Graham
instance of	c/1745 births