Meds (U.S.A. and elsewhere, box and tampon, 1967, Personal Products Company) - pamphlet introducing Meds to the world (1930s) - 1941 ad - Personal Digest leaflets, which sometimes have information about Meds (1966-67) - 1967 ad - undated instructions here and here. - Australian ad, 1950s
"Educational Portfolio on Menstrual Hygiene" (1968) U.S.A. Teacher's kit for Modess sanitary napkins, menstrual tampons and panties (mostly complete)
"A Teaching Guide for Menstrual Hygiene"
(cover, 1962, Personal Products Corp. [Modess], U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's Guide to Feminine Hygiene" (cover, 1973, Personal Products Corp. [Modess], U.S.A.)
"Your Image is Your Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet for stores similar to the one below, 1967 (U.S.A.)
Modess
(Johnson & Johnson, U.S.A.) 1927 Gilbreth report to Johnson & Johnson about Modess - newspaper ads 1927-28 - "Silent Purchase" ad, June 1928 - ad, 1928 - "Modernizing Mother" ads: #1, February 1929 ("Mother . . . don't be quaint"); #3 April 1929 ("Don't weaken, Mother"); #5, June 1929 ("Never mind, Mother, you'll learn") - ad about concealing pad, 1930 - ad compared with Kotex ad, 1931 - ad, 1931 - wrapped Modess pad for dispenser, 1930s? - Ad, U.K., 1936 - True or False? ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947 - Australian ad, 1957 - ad (1956) with "Modess . . . . because" ad incorporated into it - ad for "Growing Up and Liking It" booklet (1963, Modess) - actress Carol Lynley in "How shall I tell my daughter?" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates) - French ad, 1970s? - ad, French, 1972, photo by David Hamilton - Personal Digest leaflets (6), 1966-67: describe Modess products - How Modess Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson"
MUCH MORE MODESS INFORMATION AND PRODUCTS
The first Tampax
Tampon directory.
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
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.


MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

Meds menstrual tampons, junior size
The Modess tampon

(1940s-50s?, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)


Meds endured more than one incarnation and ultimately failed (example). From the typography and text it seems to me that this version stemmed from the 1940s-1950s.

Tampax was maybe the first to introduce "junior" tampons by this name.

One of the museum staff members also had the name of Meds.

I thank Procter & Gamble for donating the box!
Below: The battered cardboard box (it arrived that way) measures 5 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 1" (13.5 x 7 x 2.54 cm).
What?! When I saw "IC495," which came on the box from Procter & Gamble, I first
thought of "Index Catalog" of Dreyer's "New General Catalog of Nebulæ and
Clusters of Stars
" (1895). IC495 referred to a "very faint, very small" object M. Javelle
spotted with the "great equatorial [telescope] of 30 inches aperture at the Nice [France] Observatory" in the
constellation Camelopardalis (at least today - I think).
Silly me. As a kid I was an astronomy geek.
I have no idea what this IC495 means.
Below: Indulge me for a second as I show you IC495 (red arrow) from the copy of Dreyer's catalog I sent away for as a 14-year-old when I lived in Okinawa, Japan, with my family.
Below: The front of my now battered tome. When you see pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope in the news you'll often see things like NGC788. NGC means New General Catalog, this very book!
 
 
OK, OK,  back to menstruation.
Below
: Back of the box.
Below: The side are identical.
Below: The ends are identical.
NEXT | instructions tampon
Meds (U.S.A. and elsewhere, box and tampon, 1967, Personal Products Company) - pamphlet introducing Meds to the world (1930s) - 1941 ad - Personal Digest leaflets, which sometimes have information about Meds (1966-67) - 1967 ad - undated instructions here and here. - Australian ad, 1950s
"Educational Portfolio on Menstrual Hygiene" (1968) U.S.A. Teacher's kit for Modess sanitary napkins, menstrual tampons and panties (mostly complete)
"A Teaching Guide for Menstrual Hygiene"
(cover, 1962, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's Guide to Feminine Hygiene" (cover, 1973, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
"Your Image is Your Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet for stores similar to the one below, 1967 (U.S.A.)
MUCH MORE
MODESS INFORMATION AND PRODUCTS
Early commercial tampons - Rely tampon - Meds tampon (Modess)
The first Tampax - Tampon directory.

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