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Micajah's Medicated Wafers
Small boxes of old American patent medicine for women's diseases,
headache, stomach illness, menstruation, and birth control
Harry Finley created the images.
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The pH - the degree of acidity or alkalinity - of a healthy
vagina is around 3.8-4.4, fairly acid. Numbers greater than that - which
happens with menstruation - allow harmful organisms to thrive, such as Candida
albicans and Trichomonas (both forms of vaginitis). Neutral is 7 and above
that, alkaline. And as a reader pointed out, the main use for these suppositories
might have been to kill sperm, which sufficiently
strong acid - under pH 3.5 - can do. See the odor page for another effect of
low vaginal acidity.
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Cellophane covers the box - or covered, since it's
beaten up.
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What typical consumer knew what the posterior
vault of the vagina was? Do you?
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