Other amazing women: Dr.
Grace Feder Thompson, Nellie Bly,
Lydia Pinkham
Historical remedies for menstrual
period pain and problems. See more remedies here.
 
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(A book first published in 1918)
Married Love
by Marie Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc., London; Ph.D., Munich
Fellow of University College London; Fellow of the Royal Society
of Literature
and of the Linnean and Geological Societies, London. First published in
1918 and,
by 1931, translated into 10 languages. This first American edition was published
in 1931 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York (The Knickerbocker Press)
The amazing Scotswoman Dr. Marie Stopes, founder of the first
birth control clinic in the British Empire
(The Mothers' Clinic in London, still running), in 1921, wrote this ground-breaking
book that devoted a
chapter to the cyclic nature of women's sexual desire,
a first, part of which appears below.
SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated this
book to the museum.
Below: Dr. Stopes is in the process of explaining
that some women feel only one of the peaks of desire each moon month, or
only experience the two peaks when they are "particularly well, or
only when they read exciting novels [!], . . . " and then the line
below starts. Read more about novels at right.
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Many books of popular medicine of the 19th century regarded
novels and dancing, among other things, as immoral
and causing masturbation and illicit sex. They were right! Read,
for example, Kellogg's Plain Facts for Old and Young,
1892.
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First, third Stopes
page, Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's
letter appealing for patients, Nellie Bly, Lydia
Pinkham,
See also the patent medicine Cardui,
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's
letter appealing for patients, Dr. Pierce's medicines,
and Orange Blossom medicine.
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