George Colman's "The Iron Chest" and "Blue-Beard" and the Pseudoscience of Curiosity Cabinets

By the mid-eighteenth century, curiosity cabinets were evolving from private, amateur collections into public, professional demonstrations that were at once scientific, commercial, educational, and sensational. The "quack" sexologist Dr. James Graham's Temple of Health and Hymen offer...

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