What did women do
                                      about menstruation
                                      in the past?
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                        
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                                    Special Book for
                                        Women 
                                      Booklet (complete) by Gilbert
                                      Thayer 
                                      (20 pages, Lafayette, Indiana,
                                      U.S.A., 1920s?) 
                                    
                                    
                                      
                                       
                                      
                                        
                                          
                                            
                                              Below:
                                                Pp. 16-17
                                              "The peasant
                                                  women of Europe
                                                who work
                                                  hard and eat
                                                  simple food, have
                                                  little or no maternal 
                                                  difficulties,
                                                while the vast array of
                                                'Women's Diseases' that
                                                keep our hospitals full
                                                and our 
                                                surgeons busy, are
                                                unknown to these women."
                                              "Nature
                                                  is always on the side
                                                  of the mother;
                                                Nature does everything
                                                possible to make  
                                                maternity easy and safe
                                                and to bring a perfect
                                                child into the world."
                                              "The most common cause
                                                of nervousness
                                                is overeating."
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                                      - introduction
                                      (p.1) - 2-3
                                      (Female trouble, corsets) - 4-5
                                      (Vaginal douche) - 6-7
                                      (Pelvic troubles in females, 
                                      The generative organs of females)
                                      - 8-9
                                      (Treatment) - 10-11
                                      (About the difficulties of
                                      maternity) - 12-13 -
                                      14-15 -
                                       
                                      16-17
                                      (Nervousness) - 18-19
                                      (Headache, Acid stomach, Cancer
                                      can be prevented, Childbirth) - 20 
                                      See
                                      an American
                                        douche set from the 1920s -
                                      Fresca douche
                                        powder from the 1920s -  
                                      SIMILAR
                                        BOOKS: Lydia Pinkham's Private
                                        Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar
                                        to Women 
                                      (1905-1910?)
                                        - The
                                        Happy Baby (Pinkham Co.,
                                      1920s-30s?) - The Intimate
                                        Side of a Woman's Life  
                                      by Leona W. Chalmers (1937) - Woman's
                                        Physical Freedom (1923)
                                      by Clelia Duel Mosher, M.D.  
                                      ODOR page
                                      
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