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LEWIS, DENSLOW. Gynecologic Consideration of the Sexual Act.   Introduction by Marc Hollender.  ISBN 087730-002-X. Weston, Mass: M & S Press, 1970. 8vo. 84 pp. Illus. Orig. cloth. $17.50

 

The first published edition, reprinting in its entirety the tremendously rare and controversial paper refused publication in 1900 by the JAMA, written by a Chicago physician, demanding for women the right to know the truth about sexual problems and diseases. �? For the 1900 annual meeting of JAMA in Chicago, Dr. Lewis had printed a small number of copies for physicians (three survived) and included details of the controversy.�? Finally published by the JAMA in 1983 in their Centennial issue under the heading "Delayed Communications."