Read Dr. Lillian Gilbreth's - two of her
kids wrote about her in "Cheaper by the Dozen"
- critique of pads
in 1927 for Johnson & Johnson, maker of
Modess. And read the influential pad put-down
"Tampons as Menstrual
Guards" from 1945. Criticism of the Rely tampon, later
associated with toxic
shock syndrome, from a tiny
Rochester, New York, newspaper (1975-76). Safety page.
Tampax's defense: "Are
Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to Health?"
(Proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952)
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Douching
with Lysol and Zonite (Zonite: pp.
152-153) in
Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene
by Rachel Lynn Palmer and
Sarah K. Greenberg, M.D., The Sun
Dial Press, New York, 1936
Zonite is Dakin's solution,
essentially weak bleach.
See an ad for Zonite from
1928.
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Read Dr. Lillian Gilbreth's - two
of her kids wrote about her in
"Cheaper by the Dozen" - critique of
pads in 1927 for Johnson &
Johnson, maker of Modess. And read
the influential pad put-down "Tampons as
Menstrual Guards" from 1945.
Criticism of the Rely tampon,
later associated with toxic shock
syndrome, from a tiny
Rochester, New York, newspaper
(1975-76). Safety
page. Tampax's defense: "Are Vaginal
Tampons Prejudicial to Health?"
(Proof for a British Tampax ad,
1952)
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