Read ads for Pond
medical tampons,
1910, U.S.A. See a stock
certificate (1916) for probably a
company that made medical tampons used in World War I. Read a
meaning of the
word tampon from a 1900 nurses' dictionary
from the U.K. Read also a
discussion of the word with examples.
Medical tampons mentioned
in newspapers, U.S.A., 1894-1921
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Draghi Detection
Tampon (submitted by the patient to
a doctor or
laboratory for the detection of cervical
cancer)
Tampax Inc. (U.S.A., date?)
Below:
One of the 10 glassine
(cellophane?) scantily clad
tampons right from the box.
The printing
is on this transparent covering,
not the tampon tubes.
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Below:
The 'pon in its glory! Compare to
Tampax's
usual tampon and to the St
Michael tampon (for especially
religious women?).
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Below:
The 3 components. The indented end
(bottom,
inner tube) is the end in
contact with the cotton plug
and probably helped push the
plug when it met resistance from
the vagina.
At top,
the plug
- the cotton absorbing part -
measures about 2 x 1/2" (5.1 x 1.3
cm) and
its string stretches about 5 1/2"
(14.5 cm). It has a slight acidic smell.
The outer
tube (middle,
below) measures 3 3/4 x 5/8" (9.5
x 1.6 cm).
The inner
tube (bottom) 4
x 9/16" (10.1 x 1.5 cm).
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