Read selections from Pierce's The People's Common
Sense Medical Adviser; or, Medicine Explained, (below) 1895, Buffalo,
New York, from Pierce's own press at his World's Dispensary Medical Association:
"Spermatorrhea' (loss of semen without copulation,
which usually means masturbation), portrait of Pierce, and his hospital.
See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing
for patients, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and Orange Blossom medicine, Dr. E. C. Abbey's
The Sexual System and Its Derangements, which emphasises
masturbation, as doe Dr. Pierce, and several small
boxes of old American patent medicine for women.
And, of course, the first Tampax AND - special
for you! - the American fax tampon,
from the early 1930s, which also came in bags.
See a Modess True or False? ad in The American
Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley
in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates).
 
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Dr. R. V. Pierce's patent medicine empire and hospital, often
concerned with women's diseases, cancer, digestive illness, fatigue,
headache, hysteria, female weakness, gynecology, obstetrics,
nervous disorders, childbirth, and menstruation
Barn advertisment
Below is a barn in the U.S.A. painted with an
advertisement for Dr. Pierce's medicine; painting ads on barns was
common in the 19th and 20th centuries. (It's a modified partial version
of a card, copyright 1980, 1985 by ENWOOD.)
SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the Dr.Pierce material to
this museum.
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