Read Dr. Lillian Gilbreth's - two of her kids wrote about her in "Cheaper by the Dozen" - critique of pads in 1927 for Johnson & Johnson, maker of Modess. And read the influential pad put-down "Tampons as Menstrual Guards" from 1945. Criticism of the Rely tampon, later associated with toxic shock syndrome, from a tiny Rochester, New York, newspaper (1975-76). Safety page. Tampax's defense: "Are Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to Health?" (Proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets!
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Douching with Lysol and Zonite (pp. 142-143) in
Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene

by Rachel Lynn Palmer and Sarah K. Greenberg, M.D., The Sun Dial Press, New York, 1936

The Dionne quintuplets (mentioned on p. 142), Canadians born in 1934, were the first five babies from a single egg (and therefore identical) known to have survived. Subjects of huge media attention, they formed the center of a kind of freak show with mixed consequences for them, their parents and their obstetrician.

See Lysol douche ads from 1928 and 1948. See a Sterizol douche liquid ad, 1926 and one from Zonite. Read exactly what the writers talk about in Zonite's Facts for Women, published five years before this book.

Read Dr. Lillian Gilbreth's - two of her kids wrote about her in "Cheaper by the Dozen" - critique of pads in 1927 for Johnson & Johnson, maker of Modess. And read the influential pad put-down "Tampons as Menstrual Guards" from 1945. Criticism of the Rely tampon, later associated with toxic shock syndrome, from a tiny Rochester, New York, newspaper (1975-76). Safety page. Tampax's defense: "Are Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to Health?" (Proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952)

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Read Dr. Lillian Gilbreth's - two of her kids wrote about her in "Cheaper by the Dozen" - critique of pads in 1927 for Johnson & Johnson, maker of Modess. And read the influential pad put-down "Tampons as Menstrual Guards" from 1945. Criticism of the Rely tampon, later associated with toxic shock syndrome, from a tiny Rochester, New York, newspaper (1975-76). Safety page. Tampax's defense: "Are Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to Health?" (Proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952)

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