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 t
he 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.
LAST pages - SEE Dr. Grace Feder
Thompson's letter appealing for patients
& Nellie Bly
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Dr. Stopes makes a great point about the end of abstention
because of menstruation being the peak of a woman's sexual desire AND about
the time for maximum fertility, roughly halfway through the menstrual cycle.
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LAST pages - SEE Dr. Grace Feder
Thompson's letter appealing for patients,
Nellie Bly, Lydia Pinkham,
Dr. Pierce's
medicines, the patent medicine Cardui,
and Orange Blossom medicine.
First, second Stopes page
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