See also Australian douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan (1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone menstrual pain pill, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Sterizol douche liquid ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Vionell genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite douche ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
See a German catalog offering many of the same things in 1933, when Hitler came to power. See many ads for douche supplies in different countries - Read The Perils of Vaginal Douching - Criticism of douching with Lysol & Zonite (1936) - See an actual douche set (Mon Docteur) from 1928-29 - "Faultless Feminine Syringe," No. 240, made by the Faultless Rubber Company, Ashland, Ohio, U.S.A., perhaps from the 1960s or 1970s. - Read what a doyenne of douching wrote in 1937
***The Perils of Vaginal Douching*** (essay by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page
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Violet Page douche & menstruation supplies, patent medicine and health books, U.S.A. 1920s-1930s?

In the past hundred years catalogs in America and Europe sold women cures for their "female problems" (see some pages from the Sears catalog and a German catalog from 1933). The Internet has partly taken over that duty today.

Women could buy a huge variety of patent medicine (here and here), including from the very successful Mrs. Lydia Pinkham, some of which was to prevent babies in an era - most of the 20th century - when this was illegal. (Sponges could also kill sperm when used with the right addition.)

This page, probably from a catalog, shows a typical selection of remedies for distress that doctors had trouble curing. Many of the remedies would be discouraged today as they possibly contained harmful chemicals or destroyed necessary bacteria in the vagina.

Click on a section to enlarge it. You see the front and back of the page, probably from a catalog.
The black and white paper page measures 7 x 14" (17.6 x 35.5 cm).

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See a German catalog offering many of the same things in 1933, when Hitler came to power. See many ads for douche supplies in different countries - Read The Perils of Vaginal Douching - Criticism of douching with Lysol & Zonite (1936) - See an actual douche set (Mon Docteur) from 1928-29 - "Faultless Feminine Syringe," No. 240, made by the Faultless Rubber Company, Ashland, Ohio, U.S.A., perhaps from the 1960s or 1970s. - Read what a doyenne of douching wrote in 1937 - The odor page

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