You won’t know quite whether to laugh or cry or thank Dr. Wakely for his almost criminally-Victorian little 1846 book whose original, full title is:

“Woman and Her Secret Passions Containing an Exact Description of the Female Organs of Generation, Their Uses and Abuses, Together With a Detailed Account of the Causes and The Cure of the Solitary Vice.”

If that doesn’t have you panting breathlessly, some of the good doctor’s rather indiscreet patient stories will.