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Joseph Mortimer Granville (4 May 1833, Devonport – 23 November 1900, London) was an English physician, author and inventor known for having first patented the electromechanical vibrator for relief of muscle aches, exclusively for male patients.
Nov 23, 2018 · A few years ago I published a paper (available open access here) on the anti-temperance writings of Joseph Mortimer Granville (1833-1900), a Victorian doctor and writer who died on this day.
Hysteria, set in London in the 1880s, follows the story of the ever-spirited young Doctor Mortimer Granville prior to his discovery of the vibrator and its medical benefits. Mortimer (Hugh Dancy) continually seeks betterment in the medical profession, and is enamoured with the breakthrough science.
Find books, manuscripts, paintings, illustrations, photos and unpublished archives about Granville, J. Mortimer (Joseph Mortimer), 1833-1900, many of them with free online access.
Mortimer Granville, M.D., F.S.S. London : 1877. The Lancet Commission, as the author tells us, was designed to ascertain the efficiency of the provisions for the care of the insane; to discover and formulate the proper treatment of insanity; and to collect the statistics of the different asylums round about London.
When Mary Ellen Ormerod was born in 1838, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, her father, William Ormerod, was 31 and her mother, Hannah Board, was 31. She married Joseph Mortimer Granville in 1858, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons.
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In 1891 Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville wrote a series of letters to the Times that amounted to what one commentator described as “a plea for the use of more alcohol.” Though he was denounced by the B...
