See
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's
letter appealing for patients; Dr. Pierce's
medical empire; Lydia
E. Pinkham's fabulously successful
vegetable compound & trinkets &
publications; Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and
Its Derangements (1882); Dr. Young's rectal
dilators; Orange
Blossom medicine; ad for Ergoapiol (1904),
an abortion substance; and Lysol douche liquid
ad, 1948 (U.S.A.)
YOUR
remedies for
menstrual period pain and problems. See
more remedies here.
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"The 20th
Century Song Book"
(menstrual, kidney &
liver problems, constipation
& bowels, tiredness,
indigestion, colic, colds,
chills, fever, childbirth,
rheumatism, arthritis,
leuchorrhea, dizziness, pain,
headache, "female weakness,"
etc.)
Chattanooga Medicine Company,
U.S.A., 1904
Complete booklet, 32 pages plus
covers
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Below:
Pp. 6-7. Right-hand page: "The Rebecca Lodges
grew out of the interest of women
in participating in the IOOF
[International Order of Odd
Fellows] activities. The name
Rebecca is derived from the Old
Testament where Rebecca draws
water from
the well for man and animal. She
is considered to be the
protectress of the indispensable
water and by that symbolically of
life. She
is the symbol of readiness to help
and decisiveness." (From
http://mysite.verizon.net/res6xy3i/id68.html)
You'll read the names of many social
organizations in these
pages, which might have
conferred credence to the
speakers'
statements supporting this
patent medicine. These
organizations were the
Facebook of early America and
very face to face.
"Write to
us": Lydia E.
Pinkham's company as well as
others (Dr.
Pierce offered to cure men
of masturbation)
also advised people
by mail and mostly recommended its
own brews.
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