See Dr.
                                              Grace Feder Thompson's
letter
                                              appealing for patients, Lydia
                                                E. Pinkham's
                                              Vegetable Compound, and Orange
                                                Blossom medicine,
                                              Dr. E. C. Abbey's The
                                                Sexual System and Its
                                                Derangements, which
                                              emphasises masturbation,
                                              as doe Dr. Pierce, and
                                              several small
                                                boxes of old
                                              American patent medicine
                                              for women.
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
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                                            Dr. R.
                                                  V. Pierce's patent
                                                  medicine empire and
                                                  hospital, often
                                                 
                                                concerned with women's
                                                diseases, cancer,
                                                digestive illness,
                                                fatigue, 
                                                headache, physical
                                                therapy, female
                                                weakness, hysteria,
                                                nervous 
                                                disorders, gynecology
                                                and menstruation 
                                                Selections from "The
                                                  People's Common Sense
                                                  Medical Adviser 
                                                 in Plain
                                                  English; or, Medicine
                                                  Simplified," 1895,
                                                Buffalo, New York 
                                                Was
                                                  Dr. Pierce a
                                                  hypocrite?
                                            
                                              
                                               
                                              
                                                
                                                  
                                                    
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