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. 10-11
                                              Maternity:
                                                "While the woman should
                                                have skillful assistance
                                                during labor, it is far 
                                                  more important
                                                that, throughout
                                                pregnancy, she eat
                                                  physiologically [?],
                                                and take
                                                  care not 
                                                  to overeat,
                                                that she exercise
                                                regularly, and that she
                                                keep
                                                  her body in prime
                                                  condition."
                                              "Morning
                                                  sickness occurs
                                                in women who eat
                                                  wrong and who
                                                have done so all their
                                                lives."
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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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