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Dr. '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1808-12-31|birthplace=New York County (Manhattan), {{USSC|NY}}|death=1880-12-07|ibid=yes}})<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://findagrave.com/memorial/54023386/edward-h-dixon
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Find a Grave
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref><ref>{{REFnews
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1880/12/08/archives/death-of-an-old-physician-dr-edward-h-dixon-passes-away-sketch-of-h.html
|title=Death of an Old Physician: Dr. Edward H. Dixon Passes Away - Sketch of His Life
|journal=The New York Times
|date=1880-12-08
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref>, was a New York City surgeon. He was alo author of various surgical papers, and lecturer on the operative surgery of the eye.
== Curriculum vitae ==
Dixon earned his {{MD}} from Rutgers Medical College in 1829 or 1830, and then studied material medica, theory and practice, and therapeutics under Dr. John Francis; and surgery under Dr. Alexander Mott. Afterwards, Dixon accepted positions at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and House of Refuge. Later, he opened his own practice as a consulting surgeon, as well as a private surgical hospital.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://cpparchives.org/agents/people/2704
|title=Dixon, Edward H.
|website=Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
|date=2019
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref>
== Circumcision promotion ==
In 1845, Dixon claimed that [[circumcision]] prevents [[masturbation]] in males:
{{Citation
|Text=There are two conditions of the prepuce, or that moveable part that can be drawn over the glans, and retracted again, that occasions, during syphilis and gonorrhea, the greatest annoyance, and demands the interference of the surgeon. The enlightened nations of the earth, should surely adopt the ancient rite of circumcision, as admirably adapted, not only to prevent these minor evils, but, in all probability, by facilitating cleanliness, the existence of diseases themselves, as well as other serious affectios of the same parts.
|Author=[[{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
|Source=''A Treatise on Diseases of the Sexual Organs'' (see publication)
}}
Michael Moon, a Whitman scholar, wrote:
{{Citation
|Text=Whitman cultivated acquaintances with a number of New York physicians during the 1840s and 1850s, including {{Highlighting|several who wrote anti-onanist works. Representative of these was '''Edward H. Dixon''', author of a number of quasi-popular articles on "Onanism" and "Spermatorrhea"}} which appeared in book form in the years preceding the first ''Leaves of Grass''…. Whitman frequently reviewed and reprinted Dixon's pronouncements on sexuality and hygiene during his editorship of the Brooklyn ''Daily Times'' in the 1840s, and he entered the addresses of the physician's home and office in a notebook in 1856. {{Highlighting|Dixon was a leading American 'expert' on 'spermatorrhea,' a diagnostic category which commanded much attention in the medical literature (and patent medical advertising) of the time.}} The sufferer of this 'disorder' had supposedly (owing to excessive [[masturbation]]) lost any ability to control his seminal flow and become subject to continual debilitating seminal "discharges." Thousands of male victims of gonorrheal or other urinary-tract infections, as well as men who were simply anxious about experiencing 'wet-dreams,' must have misdiagnosed their 'complaints' (or been misdiagnosed by physicians) and relied on 'spermatorrhea' remedies, which included such extreme and painful practices as cauterization of the urethra.
|Author=Michael Moon
|Source=WhitmanArchive
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://whitmanarchive.org/archive1/classroom/student_projects/bernie/dixon.html
|title=Will Medicine cure the loss of Organic Power?
|last=Heidkamp
|first=Bernie
|website=Whitman Hypertext Archive
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref>
}}
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* {{Dixon1845}}
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|title=Authors: Dixon, Edward H. 1808-1880
|website=National Library of Medicine
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Edward+H.+Dixon%22
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Google Books
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Edward H.}}
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Dr. '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1808-12-31|birthplace=New York County (Manhattan), {{USSC|NY}}|death=1880-12-07|ibid=yes}})<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://findagrave.com/memorial/54023386/edward-h-dixon
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Find a Grave
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref><ref>{{REFnews
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1880/12/08/archives/death-of-an-old-physician-dr-edward-h-dixon-passes-away-sketch-of-h.html
|title=Death of an Old Physician: Dr. Edward H. Dixon Passes Away - Sketch of His Life
|journal=The New York Times
|date=1880-12-08
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref>, was a New York City surgeon. He was alo author of various surgical papers, and lecturer on the operative surgery of the eye.
== Curriculum vitae ==
Dixon earned his {{MD}} from Rutgers Medical College in 1829 or 1830, and then studied material medica, theory and practice, and therapeutics under Dr. John Francis; and surgery under Dr. Alexander Mott. Afterwards, Dixon accepted positions at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and House of Refuge. Later, he opened his own practice as a consulting surgeon, as well as a private surgical hospital.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://cpparchives.org/agents/people/2704
|title=Dixon, Edward H.
|website=Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
|date=2019
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref>
== Circumcision promotion ==
In 1845, Dixon claimed that [[circumcision]] prevents [[masturbation]] in males:
{{Citation
|Text=There are two conditions of the prepuce, or that moveable part that can be drawn over the glans, and retracted again, that occasions, during syphilis and gonorrhea, the greatest annoyance, and demands the interference of the surgeon. The enlightened nations of the earth, should surely adopt the ancient rite of circumcision, as admirably adapted, not only to prevent these minor evils, but, in all probability, by facilitating cleanliness, the existence of diseases themselves, as well as other serious affectios of the same parts.
|Author=[[{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
|Source=''A Treatise on Diseases of the Sexual Organs'' (see publication)
}}
Michael Moon, a Whitman scholar, wrote:
{{Citation
|Text=Whitman cultivated acquaintances with a number of New York physicians during the 1840s and 1850s, including {{Highlighting|several who wrote anti-onanist works. Representative of these was '''Edward H. Dixon''', author of a number of quasi-popular articles on "Onanism" and "Spermatorrhea"}} which appeared in book form in the years preceding the first ''Leaves of Grass''…. Whitman frequently reviewed and reprinted Dixon's pronouncements on sexuality and hygiene during his editorship of the Brooklyn ''Daily Times'' in the 1840s, and he entered the addresses of the physician's home and office in a notebook in 1856. {{Highlighting|Dixon was a leading American 'expert' on 'spermatorrhea,' a diagnostic category which commanded much attention in the medical literature (and patent medical advertising) of the time.}} The sufferer of this 'disorder' had supposedly (owing to excessive [[masturbation]]) lost any ability to control his seminal flow and become subject to continual debilitating seminal "discharges." Thousands of male victims of gonorrheal or other urinary-tract infections, as well as men who were simply anxious about experiencing 'wet-dreams,' must have misdiagnosed their 'complaints' (or been misdiagnosed by physicians) and relied on 'spermatorrhea' remedies, which included such extreme and painful practices as cauterization of the urethra.
|Author=Michael Moon
|Source=WhitmanArchive
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://whitmanarchive.org/archive1/classroom/student_projects/bernie/dixon.html
|title=Will Medicine cure the loss of Organic Power?
|last=Heidkamp
|first=Bernie
|website=Whitman Hypertext Archive
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref>
}}
{{PUB}}
* {{Dixon1845}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/?f%5Bdrep2.authorAggregate%5D%5B%5D=Dixon%2C+Edward+H.%2C+1808-1880
|title=Authors: Dixon, Edward H. 1808-1880
|website=National Library of Medicine
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Edward+H.+Dixon%22
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Google Books
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}
{{ABBR}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Edward H.}}
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