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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 -
long
banned in America. Dr. Stopes
foundeAustralian
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 d
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 (excerpt)
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.
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.
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:
First page, P. 51.
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| 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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