Free Medical Lectures to Ladies. Dr. E. Small, of Boston…Diseases Peculiar to Females… [opening lines of broadside]

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Antebellum broadside announcing a free public medical lecture on gynecological health for women only. Dr. E. Small’s lecture was to be given before both “married and unmarried” women at the town hall in Gardiner, Maine “...to explain the cause and phenomenon of Uterine Disease, a disease that causes a greater amount of suffering, both Physical and Mental, and renders more females invalids, than any other disease that afflicts the human family.”

The broadside further acts, in part, as a prospectus, noting Dr. Small as being “...the author of a treatise on the disease upon which he lectures…a few copies of which he will have with him.” This is a reference to his book A Treatise on Inflammatory Disease of the Uterus, the second edition of which was published in Boston in 1856. Dr. Small may be the the same Dr. E. Small who practiced Thomsonian or botanic medicine in Camden, Maine in the 1830s and Winthrop, Massachusetts in the 1840s.¹

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