A contemporary patent medicine empire: Read selections from Dr. R.V. Pierce's The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser; or, Medicine Explained, (1895, Buffalo, New York, from Pierce's own press at his World's Dispensary Medical Association: "Spermatorrhea' (loss of semen without copulation, which usually means masturbation), portrait of Pierce, and his hospital.See also Cardui patent medicine booklet covers, testimonials, examination sheetSee Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and Orange Blossom medicine, Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements, which emphasises masturbation, as does Dr. Pierce, and several small boxes of old American patent medicine for women.See the Wix tampon, instructions, patent, The Fascinating Story of Wix (and another version) and store instruction sheet. And read an ad in the Sears catalog for Wix and see a Wix tampon store display ad.Early commercial tamponsAds for the Kotex
stick tampon (U.S.A., 1970s) - a Japanese stick tampon
from the 1970s.
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S. B. Hartman,
M.D. Lectures on Chronic Catarrh,
(ca. 1895)
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SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the booklet to this museum. |
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P. 95. Mothers! When in Doubt Write
Dr. Hartman. False Modesty. In contrast to the doctor's usual advice, these lines are smart (under FALSE MODESTY): One of the most mistaken and harmful notions that exist among the women of to-day is the notion that maidens should be kept in ignorance of their bodily functions. Nothing is more conducive to evil than ignorance. A girl ought to know all about herself that her mother can teach her. ... All the questions prompted by her budding maidenhood will be answered by someone; if not by her mother, then by some less wise and conscientious person. ... |
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Don't mail that letter! Darn
it, I'm over 100 years late.
I could've saved her the 2-cent stamp and told her what Dr. Hartman would have recommended: a teaspoon of you-know-what several times a day for months. |
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Cover | contents | preface | introduction | [pp. 2-64 skipped] | 65 female catarrh | 66 female debility | 67 catarrh; vulvitis; catching cold | 68 The working woman; the society woman | 69 pruritis vulvae | 70 catarrh of bladder | 71 [illustration only] "Health and Beauty are Inseparable" | 72 vaginitis; leucorrhea (whites) | 73 bearing-down pains | 74 heavy skirts; a typical case of vaginal leucorrhea | 75 endometritis | 76 pe-ru-na is harmless | 77 catarrhal amenorrhea | 78 menorrhagia; metorrhagia | 79 dysmenorrhea | 80 [illustration only] "Perfect Health Brings Beauty" | 81 salpingitis | 82 barrenness | 83 change of life [menopause] | 84 catarrhal congestion | 85 no narcotics; constipation; your diet | 86 an interesting case continued | 87 the nerves and catarrh; hysteria | 88 nervous prostration | 89 a merchant's wife; a farmer's wife | 90 [illustration only] "The Only Road to Beauty is Health" | 91 catarrh continued | 92 clean skin; massage baths | 93 facial blemishes; mask for face and hands | 94 heredity | 95 false modesty | 96 health and beauty | 97 epidemic catarrh or la grippe [influenza, flu] 98 gentle laxative; after effects of la grippe