See more douche apparatus: Germany (1933,
as Hitler was coming to power), Australia, an
American book promoting the practice, and
instructional material for an American company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like
parties in women's houses!
See an American douche set, Mon Docteur (My
Doctor in French), with instructions and booklets, from about 1929.
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 menstrual
pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet (selections),
1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad, 1926 (U.S.A.)
- Myzone menstrual pain pill, 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 ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
 
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Marvel vaginal douche and Big G for vaginal discharge and maybe a contraceptive
douche liquid
Ad from the Anaconda Standard newspaper, Montana,
March 29, 1901
Douching in America, of course, is squirting a liquid into the vagina
to wash out and/or kill odor-causing organisms or to kill sperm - a birth
control device. Douching in many other countries means taking a shower.
Related: Read also an Australian
ad for douche apparatus in a banned publication, about 1900. See an American
douche bulb in a book promoting the practice authored
by the woman who might have sold the first successful menstrual cup in the
world, a predecessor of the Keeper cup. And see
instructional material for an American company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like
parties in women's houses!
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Above: February 5, 1905, NOT from the Anaconda
Standard. I show this version because the illustration is better and to
show the New York address, different from the San Francisco address, below.
Below: March 29, 1901, Anaconda Standard,
Anaconda, Montana. The town's Anaconda Mining Company started in 1884 and
I suspect it was a wild bunch. I wonder if there were
few women there and if many of them weren't ladies of ill repute - prostitutes
- who needed this douche for birth control - or venereal disease - after
filling it with Big G (bottom picture) - strange name. Just wildly speculating.
Regarding the Marvel San Francisco address, below,
a lady on the next block, 682 Mission Street, sold a not-named cure-all
a decade later: Dr. Grace Feder Thompson, whose interesting story I learned from one of her relatives.
Read it!
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See more douche apparatus: Germany (1933,
as Hitler was coming to power), Australia, an
American book promoting the practice, and
instructional material for an American company
that sold douche equipment and menstrual cups at Tupperware-like
parties in women's houses!
See an American douche set, Mon Docteur (My
Doctor in French), with instructions and booklets, from about 1929.
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