James Graham (sexologist)

James Graham (1745–1794) was a Scottish proponent of electrical cures, showman, and pioneer in sex therapy. A self-styled doctor, he was best known for his electro-magnetic musical Grand State Celestial Bed. Dismissed as a quack by medical experts, Graham apparently believed in the efficacy of his unusual treatments.[1][2]

Historian Roy Porter writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that Graham's sexological views were quite typical of the period.[3]

Dr. James Graham going along the North Bridge in a High Wind, caricature portrait from 1785 by John Kay
  1. ^ Fishbein, Morris. (1932). Fads and Quackery in Healing: An Analysis of the Foibles of the Healing Cults. New York: Covici Friede. pp. 5-6
  2. ^ Whitwell, W. L. (1977). James Graham, Master Quack. Journal of Eighteenth Century Life 4: 43-49.
  3. ^ Porter, Roy. "Graham, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11199. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)