The Intimate Side of a Woman's Life by Leona W. Chalmers (1937)
What did women do about menstruation in the past?
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
LIST OF ALL TOPICS |
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.

Woman's Physical Freedom,
Book (complete) by Clelia Duel Mosher, M.D.
(The Womans Press, New York City, U.S.A., 1923, 87 pages)
Menstrual period, breasts, bras, health, constipation, dress, exercise, pain,
puberty, menopause, bathing, fatigue, sleep, college women, Stanford, Johns Hopkins,
medical school

Introduction.

Below: Pp. 82-83
NEXT | Chart: "Causal Factors in the Increased Height of College Women" - INTRODUCTION: Sex Differences -
Changing Status of Women - Examination of These Traditional Physical Handicaps -
MENSTRUATION: Causes of Painful Menstruation - Cure of Painful Menstruation - Undesirable Treatment and Habits -
Results in other Hands - Unhygienic Habits Causing Painful Menstruation (constrictive dress - size of waist - corsets -
physical inactivity - mental attitudes) - Economic Results - Racial Efficiency and Menstruation -
Cause of Hemorrhage - Danger Symptoms - Change of Life, Menopause, or Climacteric - CONSTIPATION: Results -
Methods of Prevention and Cure - WATER - BATHING - HABITS AND ATTITUDES - FEET AND SHOES -
FATIGUE AND SLEEP - BREASTS - POSTURE - HOW TO BE WELL - CONCLUSION
The Intimate Side of a Woman's Life by Leona W. Chalmers (1937)