Go to Cardui patent medicine booklet covers, testimonials, examination sheet See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound patent medicine. YOUR remedies for menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here. See modern home remedies here. Mrs. Pinkham material: Handwritten letter to a sick woman, Typed letter to a Canadian (1918), Ad from the Salt Lake Weekly Herald (1881) for Mrs. Pinkham, trade cards (flowers, girl with cat), post card of Stanford University, a bottle for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, mending kit, booklet Stretching Your Dollar, bottles for her Blood Medicine and (just plain) Medicine, Home Talks, Private Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar to Women, Fruits and Candies booklet, and a modern bottle, box and instructions for her Tablets. A discussion of the letter testimonials, and their authenticity, of the Pinkham company (in a discussion of a Pursettes ad with a letter testimonial) See two letters to MUM about the ingredients of her Compound, and one about the lyrics of an English pop song, Lily the Pink, about her. Other amazing women: Nelli Bly, Dr. Marie Stopes, Dr. Grace Feder Thompson 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? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | 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 directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | 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 Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. Orange Blossom medicine for "all female diseases": headaches, stomach ills, insomnia, depression, cancer, tumors, constipation, women's diseases, flatulence, fertility, menstruation, hemorrhoids, etc. Prepared by J. A. McGill, M.D., & Co., Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Promotional booklet, 1885 See the front cover and a package of vaginal suppositories. SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated this material to the museum Below: Pages 4 & 5 (numerals missing) attached. Below: Page 4. "Chicken's gizzard" in the bold text in the bold text in the center.           Below: Page 5. NEXT: See pages 1 & 8, 2 & 3, 6 & 7 See a package of Orange Blossom vaginal suppositories and the first Orange Blossom page. Go to Cardui patent medicine booklet covers, testimonials, examination sheet © 2013 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org