Similar books: Woman's
Physical Freedom (1923)
by Clelia Duel Mosher, M.D.
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?)
Although the author mentions
no academic degree,
he seems to have been a
health practitioner of
some sort and refers to
his book "Perfect
Health." He advises
women to avoid
medication and
operations, not
what a physician would
advise, and suggests
that he was not legally
able to do either.
Instead, he told women
to avoid
corsets (read
the roughly contemporary
Dr.
Mosher on
clothing), get exercise,
eat
vegetables,
and avoid
meat - all
things advisable today.
And DOUCHE,
not
something embraced
today (can you
embrace a douche?).
The only date in the
booklet, 1916,
gives the earliest
time the work
could have published.
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Below:
Front cover (the back
cover is blank). The
booklet has a paper
cover (the booklet's
only color)
slightly thicker than
the pages. It measures 5
1/2 x 7" (13.6 x 17.6
cm). I found no
copyright notice
or date.
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Below:
I enlarged the tiny blob
at the bottom hoping
that it would reveal a date
but no such luck.
It reads
ALLIED PRINTERS
TRADE[S?] COUNCIL
LAFAYETTE
[center portion I can't
read]
The words on either
side of this read
HAYWOOD PUB. CO. [then
the above] LAFAYETTE
IND·
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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.
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