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,
First page of these excerpts with an introduction.
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Below: P. 122
X-rays: At this time (1931) the real danger of
x-rays was not appreciated. Read MARIE
CURIE's FATE ("Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a
term coined by her[2]), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes,
and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and
radium. It was also under her personal direction that the world's
first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms ("cancers"),
using radioactive isotopes. [From Wikipedia]):
"[Mrs.] Curie was the first person to win
or share two Nobel Prizes. She is one of only two people who have
been awarded a Nobel Prize in two different fields, the other being Linus
Pauling (Chemistry, Peace). Nevertheless in 1911 the French
Academy of Sciences refused to abandon its prejudice against women and she
failed by two votes to be elected to membership, losing to Édouard
Branly, an inventor who had helped Guglielmo Marconi develop the wireless
telegraph.[29] It would be her doctoral student, Marguerite
Perey, who would be the first woman elected to the Academy - in 1962, over
half a century later. . . .
"Her DEATH on July 4, 1934 [she was
alive when this contraception book appeared], . . . was from aplastic anemia,
almost certainly contracted from exposure to radiation.
The damaging effects of ionizing radiation were then
not yet known, and much of her work had been carried out in a shed
without any safety measures. She
had carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket and
stored them in her desk drawer, remarking on the pretty blue-green light
that the substances gave off in the dark.
"Due to their levels of radioactivity, her
papers from the 1890s (and even her cookbook)
are considered too dangerous to handle. They
are kept in lead-lined boxes; those who wish
to consult them must wear protective clothing."
"She was ahead of her time, emancipated, independent, and in addition
uncorrupted. Albert Einstein is supposed to have remarked
that she was probably the only person who was not corrupted by the fame
that she had won. [Added emphasis. From Wikipedia]"
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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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