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"Home Treatment for Women,"

(aka "CARDUI Home Treatment of Female Diseases"), before 1920?
Chattanooga Medicine Company, U.S.A.
Complete booklet, 64 pages plus covers

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Below: Pp. 14-15. Right page: "In fact, some points about [menstruation] are still in dispute amongst the best informed medical men. At any rate, we know that it consists of a certain flow of blood. The blood is not like ordinary blood--does not contain the vital properties found in your blood vessels--hence the normal menstrual flow is not weakening, as the loss of a similar quantity of blood from a cut or a wound would be. On the contrary, while, shortly before the blood begins to flow, you may have suffered from headache, backache, dizziness, heat and aching of the ovaries, dragging sensation, etc., at the beginning of the healthy flow a sensation of relief should be experienced, and the pain and other symptoms should disappear with the continuance of the flow." PMS.
 

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