Read selections from
Pierce's The
People's Common Sense
Medical Adviser; or,
Medicine Explained,
(below) 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 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 doe Dr.
Pierce, and several small
boxes of old
American patent medicine
for women.
And, of course, the
first Tampax
AND - special for
you! - the American fax tampon, from the early 1930s, which
also came in bags.
See a Modess True
or False? ad in
The American Girl
magazine, January 1947,
and actress Carol
Lynley in "How
Shall I Tell My
Daughter" booklet ad
(1955) - Modess
. . . . because
ads (many dates).
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Dr.
R. V. Pierce's
patent medicine
empire and hospital,
often
concerned with women's
diseases, cancer,
digestive illness,
fatigue,
headache, hysteria,
female weakness,
gynecology,
obstetrics,
nervous disorders,
childbirth, and
menstruation
Barn
advertisment
Below is a barn in the U.S.A. painted with an advertisement for Dr.
Pierce's
medicine;
painting ads
on barns was
common in the
19th and 20th
centuries.
(It's a
modified
partial
version of a
card,
copyright
1980, 1985 by
ENWOOD.)
SarahAnne
Hazlewood
generously
donated the
Dr.Pierce
material to
this museum.
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Finley. It is illegal to
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