See Kurb,
a Midol competitor from Kotex.
Midol booklet
(selections), 1959
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Midol menstrual pain & PMS
reliever tins, U.S.A.,
1911-1970s?
ca. 1936
Midol booklet
(selections), 1959
I thank
the retired teacher who
generously sent these tins!
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Below:
The outside of the top of the ca.
1936
metal box is the same size as the
1911 box:
2 3/4 x 1 3/16 x 1/4" (6.8 x 3 x
0.5 cm) . The words "Midol 10
tablets"
are in relief. The bottom is the
same as the 1911 box.
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Below:
Inside the box. The words in the
top are on a piece of paper and
the
bottom is lined with black paper.
Two pills remain. The box doesn't
reveal
what the pills are made of
although later boxes do.
This is the correct color.
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Below:
An enlarged pill showing MIDOL,
which also graces the other side.
Headache, anyone?
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Below:
The loose paper insert in the box
measures 4 7/8 x 2 7/8" (12.2 x
7.4 cm) when opened, as shown
(it folds vertically down the
center).
The nurse looks as if she needs a
Midol, fast.
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Below:
This is the only donated box that
can be dated by enclosed text.
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Below:
Around 1936-37 Midol made a bigger
box (3 3/16 x 1 3/16", 8 x 3 cm)
in response to competition
from Kurb,
from Kotex, among others. The box
is shown out of proportion to the
one above.
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Below:
This bigger box (back enlarged
below) also carried the
ingredients of the pills, the
first time among the
boxes the museum has.
http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/3/295
writes this about cinnamyl-ephedrine:
1.
Cinnamylephedrine (d, l,
and dl) is about ten
times as potent a surface
anesthetic as cocaine when
tested by the rabbit's cornea
method. Irritation occurs when
concentrations of one per cent
or greater are used.
2. When tested by the human
intradermal wheal method,
cinnamylephedrine (d, l,
and dl) is about
twenty times as potent as
procaine. The compound is
somewhat irritating and causes
an erythema which persists
from twelve to twenty-four
hours.
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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 pills ad, 1952
(Australia) - Pristeen
genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) -
Spalt
pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell
genital spray ad, 1970, with
Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils
of Vaginal Douching (essay
by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page
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