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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name =
| name = Granville
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Granville,_.jpg
| birth_date = 1833
| death_date = 1900
| address =
| occupation = medical<br />inventor
| elected_ESL = 1843 ?
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1844.05.18 (withdraws)
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Joseph Mortimer Granville, Born: 1833<br />Died: 1900, Cause of death: unspecified<br />Gender: Male, Religion: nglican/Episcopalian<br />Race or Ethnicity: White, Sexual orientation: Straight, Occupation: Doctor, Inventor<br />Nationality: England, Executive summary: Electric vibrator<br />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 ..."
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name =
| name = Granville
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Granville,_.jpg
| birth_date = 1833
| death_date = 1900
| address =
| occupation = medical<br />inventor
| elected_ESL = 1843 ?
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1844.05.18 (withdraws)
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Joseph Mortimer Granville, Born: 1833<br />Died: 1900, Cause of death: unspecified<br />Gender: Male, Religion: nglican/Episcopalian<br />Race or Ethnicity: White, Sexual orientation: Straight, Occupation: Doctor, Inventor<br />Nationality: England, Executive summary: Electric vibrator<br />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 ..."
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===