Granville
Granville
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| Born | 1833 | ||||||
| Died | 1900 | ||||||
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medical inventor | ||||||
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Joseph Mortimer Granville, Born: 1833
Died: 1900, Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male, Religion: nglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White, Sexual orientation: Straight, Occupation: Doctor, Inventor
Nationality: England, Executive summary: Electric vibrator
Joseph Mortimer Granville invented the electric vibrator, not as a sexual device but to relieve more mundane muscle aches. Originally called a percusser or more colloquially "Granville's hammer", the machine was manufactured and sold to physicians, but as it became increasingly popular its inventor tried to disassociate himself from the device's "mis-use". In his 1883 book on the subject, Nerve-Vibration and Excitation as Agents in the Treatment of Functional Disorder and Organic Disease, he wrote, "I have never yet percussed a female patient ... I have avoided, and shall continue to avoid the treatment of women by percussion, simply because I do not wish to be hoodwinked, and help to mislead others, by the vagaries of the hysterical state ..."
