More Tampax items:
First tampon with applicator (1931-33?) box, tampon, instructions
- 1936: box, tampon, patent (with a
short account of the invention
of
Tampax by Dr. Earle Haas, and of the first Tampax president, German
immigrant Gertrude Tenderich), ad, instructions, dealer's
instructions,
dealers' advisory
See also Australian douche ad
(ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid
ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan
(1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash
ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad,
1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol ad, 1938 - Midol booklet
(selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad,
1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone
menstrual pain pills ad, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray
ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt
pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Sterizol douche liquid
ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Vionell
genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs
(Germany) - Zonite
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of Vaginal
Douching (essay by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page
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How has the meaning of tampon
changed?
I'll add changing definitions of
"tampon" to this page. Women probably
have always used absorbent material
inside their vaginas to collect
menstrual discharge but intially I'll
focus on the specific word "tampon."
From a British nurses'
dictionary, 1900
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A kind woman in the United
Kingdom sent me this scan of
an excerpt from the 1900
"The Nurse's Dictionary of
Medical Terms and Nursing
Treatment Compiled for the
Use of Nurses," London: The
Scientific Press.
Note what appears to me to
be a French pronunciation,
with the accent on the last
syllable. No mention yet of
menstruation, although I've been told that
women sewed their own
tampons in Germany at this
time and I'm sure
elsewhere. And
there was a close connection
between tampons and theater
people: the show had to go
on! Lox
and Tamponettes
mention these show-business
uses.
See an American vaginal
suppository with thymol;
and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg,
of corn flakes fame, who
suggested pouring pure carbolic
acid on a woman's clitoris
to discourage
masturbation. Think about
that at breakfast.
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Was this the first commercial mentrual tampon
with an applicator (1931-33?) (box, tampon,
instructions)?
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