ABSTRACT
After Edward Bliss Foote died in 1906, free-thought editor George Macdonald wrote that the late doctor had befriended everyone he ever met with one obvious exception: Anthony Comstock. The latter continued to malign Foote Sr., according to Macdonald, to justify the legal actions he had taken against the doctor many years earlier (Wakeman, 1906, p. 20). Comstock as his sole enemy proved to be costly for Foote, affecting his personal finances, medical practice, publishing business, and professional reputation.
