Read Dr. Lillian Gilbreth's - two of her
kids wrote about her in "Cheaper by the Dozen"
- critique of pads
in 1927 for Johnson & Johnson, maker of
Modess. And read the influential pad put-down
"Tampons as Menstrual
Guards" from 1945. Criticism of the Rely tampon, later
associated with toxic
shock syndrome, from a tiny
Rochester, New York, newspaper (1975-76). Safety page.
Tampax's defense: "Are
Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to Health?"
(Proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952)
See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with
Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) -
ad 1928 (Sears and
Roebuck catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in
amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links here to
Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish
showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are
you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for
Teenagers main page
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Douching
with Lysol and Zonite (pp. 144-145)
in
Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene
by Rachel Lynn Palmer and Sarah K.
Greenberg, M.D., The Sun Dial Press,
New York, 1936
See another example of phenol-based
"medicine" for woman, Dr. Pierre's
Boro-Pheno-Form
suppositories.
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Read Dr. Lillian Gilbreth's - two
of her kids wrote about her in
"Cheaper by the Dozen" - critique of
pads in 1927 for Johnson &
Johnson, maker of Modess. And read
the influential pad put-down "Tampons as
Menstrual Guards" from 1945.
Criticism of the Rely tampon,
later associated with toxic shock
syndrome, from a tiny
Rochester, New York, newspaper
(1975-76). Safety
page. Tampax's defense: "Are Vaginal
Tampons Prejudicial to Health?"
(Proof for a British Tampax ad,
1952)
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