Read selections from Pierce's The People's Common
Sense Medical Adviser; or, Medicine Explained, (below) 1895, Buffalo,
New York, from Pierce's own press at his World's Dispensary Medical Association:
"Spermatorrhea' (loss of semen without copulation,
which usually means masturbation), portrait of Pierce, and his hospital.
See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing
for patients, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and Orange Blossom medicine, Dr. E. C. Abbey's
The Sexual System and Its Derangements, which emphasises
masturbation, as doe Dr. Pierce, and several small
boxes of old American patent medicine for women.
And, of course, the first Tampax AND - special
for you! - the American fax tampon,
from the early 1930s, which also came in bags.
See a Modess True or False? ad in The American
Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley
in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates).
 
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Dr. R. V. Pierce's patent medicine empire and hospital, often
concerned with women's diseases, cancer, digestive illness, fatigue,
headache, and menstruation
Dr. Pierce's hospital
Look at the magnificent Invalid's Hotel and Surgical
Institute that Dr. Pierce created (right below) in Buffalo, New York,
and its entrance (bottom picture). Both come
from his Medical Adviser,
1895 edition. This edition states that it had a staff of 18 "physicians
and surgeons."
SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the Dr. Pierce material to
this museum.
Large files, long download!
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NEXT: Dr. Pierce's "The
People's Common Sense Medical Adviser; or, Medicine Explained"
(cover), 1895, Buffalo, New York - Main
Pierce page with links
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