Sammy Tubbs the Boy Doctor and Sponsie the Troublesome Monkey

[infrogmation]

One Dr. Edward Bliss Foote (1829-1906) wrote an interesting series of books in the 1870s, braving the Comstock censorship of the era explicitly dealing with anatomy and sexuality. His works contain such interesting aspects as warnings of the dangers of alcohol and tobacco, defence of the rights of women and minorities, and some of the first positive depictions of interracial dating.

All this is is a series of 5 books of educational fiction. For children. With comic relief provided by a wacky monkey.

Read about it on village voice site. (kudos to crasch)

Clearly "Sammy Tubbs the Boy Doctor and Sponsie the Troublesome Monkey" needs to be reissued &/or made availible on the web.

Comments

[hephaestos.livejournal.com]

Apparently the University of Chicago library has a copy.

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Apparently the Kinsey Institute doesn't have a copy (although I hear from one of their librarians that they're way behind on cataloging, so the records might just be out of date). They do have another work by Foote: "Dr. Foote's home cyclopedia of popular medical, social and sexual science : embracing his new book on health and disease, with recipes, treating of the human system, hygiene and sanitation, causes, prevention, cure, and home treatment of chronic diseases, including private words for both sexes, and 250 practical recipes : also embracing plain home talk, on love, marriage, and parentage : a free and earnest discussion of human, social, and sexual relations in all ages and countries, marriage systems, defects and their remedies, human temperaments and adaptations."

[alexandstuff.livejournal.com]

That's a long ass title man. Imagine asking someone if they'd read it? :P