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Other amazing women: Nellie Bly, Lydia Pinkham, Dr. Marie Stopes
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Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

 

A pioneering woman physician and a mail-order business for women's
diseases and menstruation:
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson

In keeping with the aggressive American style of the era (or any era, for that matter) - this material is dated 1912 - Dr. Grace Feder Thompson, of San Francisco, looked for "mail-order" patients to cure by a method not revealed in the letter below. I think it's a masterpiece of American advertising.

Obviously - look at the examination sheet and return envelope - the recipient never took Dr. Thompson's offer. So much for my opinion.

SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the Thompson advertising material to this museum. The daughter of Dr. Thompson's third husband, Jerrie Wacholder, contributed the biographical information and documents.

Large file, long download! Sorry! But I want you to be able to read the letter.

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Dr. Thompson's exam sheet and the envelope it came in, and the enclosed return envelope. Her biography. First page of Dr. Thompson

See a similar examination sheet for the patent medicine Cardui.
See Cardui patent medicine, Dr. Pierce's empire, and Lydia Pinkham's Compound
Other amazing women: Nellie Bly, Lydia Pinkham, Dr. Marie Stopes
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