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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.
Dr. Mortimer Granville is a young physician who has difficulty with his occupation due to constant arguments over modern medicine. He gets a job assisting Dr. Dalrymple, whose practice specializes in the treatment of "hysteria", a popular diagnosis for women of that time.
May 5, 2012 · Hysteria tells the story of Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), an earnest young doctor in 1880 London.
May 20, 2012 · On a recent morning, Hugh Dancy is on the phone from New York, pondering the appeal of Mortimer Granville, the English doctor he plays in Tanya Wexler's "Hysteria," a Victorian period comedy...
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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...
- James Kneale
- 2014
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. Granville was a peculiar man, and his work included both useful contributions to medicine and outrageous quackery and self-promotion.
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In 1880 pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville, sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' outmoded methods, gets a job with Dr Dalrymple, who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm.
