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. 6-7.
A hint at the date
of this booklet
lies in the last
paragraph on p. 7, at
right:
this booklet must date after
1916.
Displacement
usually refers to
"unnatural" tilting of
the uterus, once
regarded as the cause
of many women's
ailments.
"Menstruation should
be painless
and will be if you are perfectly
healthy."
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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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