See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter
appealing for patients, Dr. Pierce's
medical empire and Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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"Home
Treatment for Women,"
(aka "CARDUI Home
Treatment of Female Diseases"),
before 1920?
Chattanooga Medicine Company,
U.S.A.
Complete booklet, 64 pages plus
covers
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Below:
Pp. 46-47. "Injection"
means squirting liquid
into the vagina (but not
sperm).
See more (vaginal) douche
equipment:
In
Nazi Germany,
1933. 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! The Perils
of Vaginal Douching.
And see an American
douche set, Mon
Docteur (My Doctor
in French) with
instructions, from about
1929. Book
excoriating some douche
substances for their
dangerous effects.
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