All patent medicine on this site
Go to Cardui booklet covers, examination sheet, Home Treatment for Women
See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients; Dr. Pierce's medical empire; Lydia E. Pinkham's fabulously successful vegetable compound & trinkets & publications; Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882); Dr. Young's rectal dilators; Orange Blossom medicine; ad for Ergoapiol (1904), an abortion substance; and Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.)
YOUR remedies for menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here.
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CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Extraction |
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Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
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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.

"The 20th Century Song Book"
(menstrual, kidney & liver problems, constipation & bowels, tiredness, indigestion, colic, colds, chills, fever, childbirth, rheumatism, arthritis, leuchorrhea, dizziness, pain, headache, "female weakness," etc.)
Chattanooga Medicine Company, U.S.A., 1904
Complete booklet, 32 pages plus covers

See the Cardui booklet covers, ads & bottle label with ingredients; examination sheet; and The Twentieth Century Song Book. Midol pain reliever pills for menstruation: old tins (containers), old ads, old booklet (selections). More patent medicine on this site || Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients - Dr. Pierce's medicines - Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882) - Dr. Young's rectal dilators - Orange Blossom medicine - ad for Ergoapiol (1904), abortion substance - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) YOUR remedies for menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here.

Below: Pp. 6-7. Right-hand page: "The Rebecca Lodges grew out of the interest of women in participating in the IOOF
[International Order of Odd Fellows] activities. The name Rebecca is derived from the Old Testament where Rebecca draws water from
the well for man and animal. She is considered to be the protectress of the indispensable water and by that symbolically of life. She
is the symbol of readiness to help and decisiveness." (From http://mysite.verizon.net/res6xy3i/id68.html)
You'll read the names of many social organizations in these pages, which might have conferred credence to the speakers'
statements supporting this patent medicine. These organizations were the Facebook of early America and very face to face.
"Write to us": Lydia E. Pinkham's company as well as others (Dr. Pierce offered to cure men of masturbation) also advised people
by mail and mostly recommended its own brews.

NEXT cover inside front cover & page 1 pages 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23 24-25 26-27 28-29 30-31 32-inside back cover back cover || All patent medicine on this site || Cardui's booklet covers, examination sheet, & Home Treatment for Women || See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients; Dr. Pierce's medical empire; Lydia E. Pinkham's fabulously successful vegetable compound & trinkets & publications; Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882); Dr. Young's rectal dilators; Orange Blossom medicine; ad for Ergoapiol (1904), an abortion substance; and Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - YOUR remedies for menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here.
Midol pain reliever pills for menstruation: old tins (pill containers), ads, booklet (selections)

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