The Family Doctor and People's Medical Adviser was published on 7 March 1885 by George Purkess of 286, Strand.

Today the magazine is best known for the readers' letters about sexual fetishism. Subjects: Corset, Corporal Punishment, Whipping of girls, Tight lacing, Tight boots.

sources

• The Regime of the Stay-Lace, page 51ff. ISBN 0951238531
• The Corset; A Cultural History, page 93ff. ISBN 0300099533