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.)
                      
                      
                      
                      
                          
                          
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                                A page from the catalog of the
                                  German company Thalysia, showing
                                  douche and menstruation supplies, 1933
                                  (page 1 - pages 2, 3, 4, 5)
                                Americans weren't the only ones to
                                  douche - a practice
discouraged
                                    today because it can harm the
                                  vagina - as this German page of ads
                                  attests.
                                (Read also an Australian
                                  ad for douche apparatus in a banned
                                  publication, about 1900. See an
                                  American douche bulb in a book promoting
                                    the practice authored by the
                                  woman who might have sold the first
                                  successful menstrual cup in the world,
                                  a predecessor of the Keeper cup.
                                  And see instructional material for an
                                  American
                                    company that sold douche
                                  equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like
                                    parties in women's houses!)
                                I translate some of the text. Click on the section
                                    you want enlarged!
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