Buy Lydia Pinkham's medicine on the Internet
Hello, my name is [I deleted the name] and I am 50 years old and I am going through menopause. I know this can really help me. I used to take this [Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; see more here] when I was younger. I know it will help me a lot. I can't find this at all. I am asking if you can help me out and tell me where I would be able to find this or if you have any ideas were I could find this. [A site visitor just e-mailed that it's sold at http://www.bogarddrug.com/htf.htm]
Please help me out!!
Thank You
Praise from Houston, Texas
This is a great Web site. So much good information and quite interesting!
The book Sweet Secrets, now from Sumac Press
Kathleen O'Grady, co-author of Sweet Secrets, has contributed many items to this Web site, her latest being a review of the book Is Menstruation Obsolete?
Sweet Secrets
Stories of MenstruationSee
http://www.sumachpress.com/sweetsec.htm
Menopause newsletter A Friend Indeed
Kathleen O'Grady also sent the following:
A menopause newsletter now available from the non-profit organization Initiatives for Women's Health.
For over 17 years subscribers have trusted A Friend Indeed to provide them with well-researched, balanced health information and support. The newsletter offers reliable information about a range of options, independent of any vested interest. We do not accept advertising and exist solely through the support of our subscriber base.
For a free sample copy and subscription information, please contact: afi@afriendindeed.ca
Ph: (204) 989-8028 Fax: (204) 989-8029
www.afriendindeed.ca
Referred to as the "grandmother of menopause letters," A Friend Indeed addresses a broad range of issues:
· Pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy
· Heart disease
· Osteoporosis and bone cancer
· Breast cancer - prevention and treatment
· Complementary medicine
· Menopausal weight gain and body image
· Useful suggestions for being careful consumers of health products and the health care system.
Heather Patrick, AFI Admin.
Main Floor, 419 Graham Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3C 0M3
and Box 260 Pembina ND 58271-260
Ph: (204) 989-8028 Fax: (204) 989-8029
Women & the Goddess, Milk & Honey store
Hello, Mum.org,
I'm the webmaster for http://www.milk-and-honey.com, a store for Women and the Goddess. We would love to have a link to our site from yours. We're located in Sebastopol, California
Milk & Honey is a Main Street sanctuary, gift store extraordinaire and a center for teachers and musicians to share their musings. It is a place of nourishment for body, mind and spirit.
Thank you,
Jesse Law
Webmaster
Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry. (Gibran)
The play Even the Queen
"Even the Queen, a dark red comedy by K. T. Bradford ..."
Those of your readers who can't get to a city where it's showing on stage might like to know that the description fits a short story by Connie Willis, by the same title, which is in one of her paperback collections (I can't say which, it's in a box somewhere).
[Several news pages ago you can read more about the play.]
Homeopathic medicine
Greetings,
My name is Dr. Dennis Simpson. I am a Doctor of Chiropractic and Homeopathy and have written the book, Homeokinetix: Casebook and Instruction manual.
It is about the use of Kinesiology (muscle reflex testing) for selecting Homeopathic remedies. See www.homeokinetix.com.
Best regards, looking forward to hearing from you and exchanging links.
Dr. Dennis Simpson D.C.
Correction of the date I gave to a Kotex box
The white rose box design for Kotex was patented in 1959; the box you have is from 1963 or after, as ZIP codes were introduced in 1963 and this box has them, and asks for them when sending in for the menstruation and tampon kits. Just thought you might like to know. [Many thanks!]
You CAN buy black panty liners in the Washington, D.C., area
Mr. Finley, I too live in the DC area. A few days ago I was shopping in the Walmart in, or just south of, Alexandria Va. While there I noticed that they had Carefree black pantyliners. I would assume that other Walmarts also stock the product.
[Two weeks ago a visitor reported that black panty liners are on the market.]
From the California African American Museum
Hi,
Congratulations on such an informative museum. Where are you located? [Right now, only in cyberspace. Read my ideas about the future museum.]
Ms. Redell R. Hearn, Museum Curator
California African American Museum
600 State Drive Exposition Park // Los Angeles, CA 90037
Phone 213.744.2132 // Fax 213.744.2050
The California African American Museum researches, collects, preserves and interprets for public enrichment, the history, art and culture of African Americans with emphasis on California and the Western United States
Moonlodges and menstrual celebration
Harry, like your site...very detailed...have not even really gotten into it...will take some time...can't wait to dig deeper...
I am contacting you for two reasons:
1. to ask you to update your contact info for our book [on the books page]:
Steele, Cassie Premo
1999. Moon Days: Creative Writings about Menstruation. Ash Tree Publishing, 1-800-431-1579 [a phone number in the U.S.A.].
2. To offer to contribute some content to your site.
Noticed you have no section on moonlodges. We would love to contribute some content to start a moonlodge page on your site OR you could even link directly to one of our moonlodge pages.
This page is just in its beginning formation, started last month, should grow quite rapidly with articles and such.
MOONLODGE:
A place for menstruation celebration.
http://www.herbshealing.com/page1060.html
This page is well-developed with lots of images and some articles and links to other places, but it does promote our free moonlodge.
MoonLodge
Wise Woman Center
http://www.susunweed.com/z11%20moonlodge_sw.htm
So, Harry, would love to hear from you concerning the contact info changes and also about us linking together or submitting some content.
I have a few good articles, excerpts, and the such you could put on your site, if you are inclined. [Yes!]
Most sincerely,
Justine Smythe
susunweed@hvc.rr.com
www.susunweed.com
www.herbshealing.com
www.ashtreepublishing.com
www.ash-tree-publishing.com
Book about menstruation published in Spain
The Spanish journalist who contributed some words for menstruation to this site last year and wrote about this museum (MUM) in the Madrid newspaper "El País" just co-authored with her daughter a book about menstruation (cover at left).
She writes, in part,
Dear Harry Finley,
As I told you, my daughter (Clara de Cominges) and I have written a book (called "El tabú") about menstruation, which is the first one to be published in Spain about that subject. The book - it talks about the MUM - is coming out at the end of March and I just said to the publisher, Editorial Planeta, to contact you and send you some pages from it and the cover as well. I'm sure that it will be interesting to you to have some information about the book that I hope has enough sense of humour to be understood anywhere. Thank you for your interest and help.
If you need anything else, please let me know.
Best wishes,
Margarita Rivière
Belen Lopez, the editor of nonfiction at Planeta, adds that "Margarita, more than 50 years old, and Clara, 20, expose their own experiences about menstruation with a sensational sense of humour." (Later this month more information will appear on the publisher's site, in Spanish.)
My guess is that Spaniards will regard the cover as risqué, as many Americans would. And the book, too. But, let's celebrate!
Two weeks ago I mentioned that Procter & Gamble was trying to change attitudes in the Spanish-speaking Americas to get more women to use tampons, specifically Tampax - a hard sell.
Compare this cover with the box cover for the Canadian television video about menstruation, Under Wraps, and the second The Curse.
An American network is now developing a program about menstruation for a popular cable channel; some folks from the network visited me recently to borrow material.
And this museum lent historical tampons and ads for a television program in Spain last year.
Now, if I could only read Spanish! (I'm a former German teacher.)
Irregular menses identify women at high risk for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which exists in 6-10% of women of reproductive age. PCOS is a major cause of infertility and is linked to diabetes.
