See more douche apparatus: Germany (1933, as
Hitler was coming to power), Australia, an
American book
promoting the practice, and instructional
material for an American
company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at
Tupperware-like parties in
women's houses!
See an American douche set, Mon Docteur (My Doctor
in French), with instructions and booklets,
from about 1929.
See also Australian douche ad
(ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid
ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan
(1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash
ad, 1980s (Germany) - 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 menstrual pain
pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol
booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad,
1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone
menstrual pain pill, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray
ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt
pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Sterizol douche liquid
ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Vionell
genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs
(Germany) - Zonite
douche ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
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Marvel vaginal douche and Big G for
vaginal discharge and maybe a
contraceptive douche liquid
Ad from the Anaconda
Standard newspaper, Montana, March
29, 1901
Douching in America, of course, is
squirting a liquid into the vagina to
wash out and/or kill odor-causing
organisms or to kill sperm - a birth
control device. Douching in many other
countries means taking a shower.
Related:
Read also an Australian
ad for douche apparatus in a banned
publication, about 1900. See an
American douche bulb in a book promoting
the practice authored by the
woman who might have sold the first
successful menstrual cup in the world,
a predecessor of the Keeper cup.
And see instructional material for an
American
company that sold douche
equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like
parties in women's houses!
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Above:
February 5, 1905, NOT from the
Anaconda Standard. I show this version
because the illustration is better and
to show the New York address,
different from the San Francisco
address, below.
Below:
March 29, 1901, Anaconda Standard,
Anaconda, Montana. The town's Anaconda
Mining Company started in 1884 and I
suspect it was a wild bunch. I wonder if there
were few women there and if many of
them weren't ladies of ill repute -
prostitutes - who needed this douche
for birth control - or venereal
disease - after filling it with Big
G (bottom picture) - strange name.
Just wildly speculating.
Regarding the
Marvel San Francisco address, below,
a lady on the next block, 682
Mission Street, sold a not-named
cure-all a decade later: Dr. Grace Feder
Thompson,
whose interesting story I learned
from one of her relatives. Read it!
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See more douche apparatus: Germany (1933, as
Hitler was coming to power), Australia, an
American book
promoting the practice, and instructional
material for an American
company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at
Tupperware-like parties in
women's houses!
See an American douche set, Mon Docteur (My Doctor
in French), with instructions and booklets,
from about 1929.
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