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James Graham (sexologist) (English Wikipedia)

secondary literature · 2026
type:secondary literature
year:2026
citation:Wikipedia contributors. 'James Graham (sexologist).' English Wikipedia, lead section and biographical sections as fetched on 2026-05-29.
LINK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Graham_(sexologist)
SUMMARY
English Wikipedia biographical article on James Graham (1745-1794). Used in this bundle as the citable secondary anchor for the specific identifier-level facts the Sha 2010 *Medical History* review and the Soth 2019 JSTOR Daily article do not carry: the bed's 40-glass-pillar insulation; the two principal advertised preparation names 'Electrical Aether' and 'Nervous Aetherial Balsam'; the 'Goddesses of Health' role term; the verbatim Hymen motto 'Be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth!'; the March 1784 forced-sale date; the 1786 Panton Street earth-bathing exhibitions; the end-of-1792 fasting experiments; and the 'died at his home in Edinburgh in 1794' framing. Wikipedia is a tertiary source whose underlying references (chiefly Lydia Syson's 2008 biography, also cited as a separate source entry in this bundle) are not independently audited here. The bed's '12 by 9 feet (3.7 by 2.7 m)' dimensions appear in both the Wikipedia article and later scholarship summarized in the Sha review; the case attributes them to scholarship generally, not to Wikipedia alone.
NOTES

The English Wikipedia biography of James Graham is the bundle’s citable anchor for the specific identifier-level facts (preparation names, 40-pillar figure, post-1784 chronology, Edinburgh death framing) that the Sha 2010 review and the Soth 2019 article do not separately carry. The case body and the related practitioner, intervention, ingredient, and claim entities name “the Wikipedia biography” in prose where its facts are used; this source entity makes the named attribution discoverable in each entity’s sources array. Wikipedia is a tertiary source; its own underlying references (chiefly Lydia Syson’s 2008 biography, which is also cited as a separate source entry in this bundle) are not independently audited here.