Prophylactic and Contraceptive Products
that May be Sold
in Oregon by Legally Licensed Outlets during the Year 1957
(brochure)
Pro-Fo Lactic (U.S.A., 1930-40s?)
A short history of contraception and religion
- Egyptian
hieroglyphics from about 1550 B.C.E. describing a tampon used for contraception -
Australian douche ads
(about 1900)in the "Wife's
Guide and Friend"
Fresca douche powder (early 20th century,
U.S.A.)
Selections from the first American edition of Married
Love (first published 1918), Dr. Marie Stopes'
book that was long banned in America. Dr. Stopes founded the first birth-control
clinic in the British Empire, in 1921, and it's still running.
See also early contraceptive sponges disguised for other uses. Ad for Ergoapiol, treatment for painful or missing menstrual periods or
other irregularities of the menstrual cycle - or for abortion, 1904. Patent medicine at this museum.
Enovid (U.S.A.) birth-control pill
package & directions (1964) with booklet Planning
Your Family (also 1964) addressed to married women,
not single.
What did women do about menstruation in the
past?
 
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Control of Conception: An Illustrated
Manual (excerpts)
Medical Aspects of Human Fertility Series Issued by the
National Committee on Maternal Health, Inc. (which Dr. Dickinson helped
found)
Book by Robert Latou Dickinson, M.D. & Louise Stevens Bryant, 1931/32,
U.S.A.
contraception, birth control, pregnancy, condom, douche, sponge, tampon,
menstrual period,
pessary, abstinence, mother, marriage, parents, childbirth,
Below, read the REPEAT of my introduction
to this book found on the first page of
these excerpts:
Gynecologist, obstetrician, probably the most
important sex researcher before Kinsey, artist who sketched the outdoors
as well as women's genitals, supporter of Margaret Sanger (mostly), religious
man, and author of many books as well as illustrator for a walking guide
to New York City - that was the man who co-authored this book, Robert Latou
Dickinson.
See something missing from the zillion ways to prevent having a baby?
Yes, but oral hormonal contraceptives - The Pill
- didn't appear on the market until decades later. Also, the remainder of
the chapter not included here mentions other methods.
The Web site for the Humboldt University in Berlin writes
this about the artist-doctor (I added the red
emphasis):
Sketching rapidly and accurately with a crayon, Dickinson also made
rough drawings of the anatomy of his patients in order to have on file
indicators of problems they might face. The first
set of sketches were drawn while the patient was on the examining table
and included drawings of their uterus, cervix, and vulva. The patient's
first visit was scheduled to last an hour so that he could review the patient's
history, do the physical examination, make his sketches (a minimum of five),
and talk with his patient about what to expect. Sixty-two sketches were
the most he made on a single patient, but this was because of the unusualness
of the case. He averaged about 20 sketches per patient drawn over the years
he treated them. He took his first sex history as
such in 1890. Over the course of his practice, Dickinson gathered
case histories on 5,200 women (4000 married and 1200
unmarried), of which only 46 date before 1900.
On this MUM Web site see Dr. Dickinson's influential
report, Tampons as Menstrual Guards (1945),
that helped tampons gain a, um, foothold in women's affections; his Standing Female Pelvic Organs for the Tampax Educational
Department; and his sculpture of the female pelvis
for Tampax Incorporated,
used on an educational chart.
See the work of another physician-artist
of the time, Frank Netter.
The excerpt here is from chapter 3, Technique of Control of Conception.
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Below: P. 102 (previous
page; see contents of the excerpts at the bottom
of this
and every page)
Intrauterine stems & rings
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NEXT | Technique of Control of Conception:
General measures - Abstinence
- Lactation - Safe period
[in the menstrual cycle] -
[chart: Conception from isolated coitus] - Methods employed by the husband: Withdrawal
- Coitus reservatus - Coitus
saxonus -
Suburethral opening - Australian "Mika" operation - The Condom
- [Illustration: The Condom] - Rubber
versus Skin - Patched Skin Condoms -
Rubber Condoms - Sizes
- Tests - Shape -
Practical Considerations - Lubrication
- Methods employed by the wife: The
Douche -
[Figs. 16 & 17: Vaginal douche, fountain syringe]
- [Figs. 18 & 19: Vaginal douche, whirling spray]
- Pressure douche - Medication
-
Lathering - Spermicides
- Jellies - [Figs. 20 & 21: Jelly
& Tablet] - Suppositories - Foam tablets - Powders - Summary on Chemicals -
Vaginal Barriers: Tampons, Sponges and Pessaries
- [Fig. 22: Sponge as Vaginal Diaphragm] - Russian Hard Rubber Ball -
Pessaries - [List of Figs. 23-46: Fitting
of Pessaries: Illustrations start here] -
Cervix Occlusive Pessaries - Vaginal
Diaphragms -
Fitting the Pessary - Types
of Diaphragm Pessary - Degree of Safety -
[Table: Comparative Safety of Usual Methods of Conception
Control] -
Omissions - Intrauterine
stems & rings - [illustrations of stems
& accidents & cavities] - Gräfenberg
of G-spot fame -
Shape of uterine cavity - Rhythmic
contraction of the uterus - Forms of stems causing
trouble - Silkworm & silver rings -
Conclusions on intrauterine devices - Heat to the testicle - X-rays
- Reversible operations (includes vasectomies)
- Hormones -
Spermatoxins - FEDERAL
LAWS on prevention of
conception - State-by-state laws - Eugenical sterilizations laws in United States -
Supreme Court decision in Virginia
sterilization case, Buck vs Bell (1927), quoting Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes -
Legal status of contraception & sterilization
- Practical application to physicians - Eugenical sterilization laws
Pro-Fo Lactic - Doozee
douche for soda pop bottles - Lysol douche liquid
ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) -
Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol
ad, 1938 -
Midol booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Enovid (U.S.A.) birth-control pill package &
directions (1964)
with booklet Planning Your Family (also 1964)
addressed to married women, not single.
Prophylactic and Contraceptive Products that
May be Sold in Oregon by Legally Licensed Outlets during the Year 1957
(brochure)
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