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Go to Cardui booklet covers, examination sheet, Home Treatment for Women
See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients; Dr. Pierce's medical empire; Lydia E. Pinkham's fabulously successful vegetable compound & trinkets & publications; Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882); Dr. Young's rectal dilators; Orange Blossom medicine; ad for Ergoapiol (1904), an abortion substance; and Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.)
YOUR remedies for menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here.
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Mrs. Pinkham material: Handwritten letter to a sick woman, Typed letter to a Canadian (1918), Ad from the Salt Lake Weekly Herald (1881) for Mrs. Pinkham, trade cards (flowers, girl with cat), post card of Stanford University, a bottle for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, mending kit, booklet Stretching Your Dollar, bottles for her Blood Medicine and (just plain) Medicine, Home Talks, Private Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar to Women, Fruits and Candies booklet, and a modern bottle, box and instructions for her Tablets.
A discussion of the letter testimonials, and their authenticity, of the Pinkham company (in a discussion of a Pursettes ad with a letter testimonial)
See two letters to MUM about the ingredients of her Compound, and one about the lyrics of an English pop song, Lily the Pink, about her.
Other amazing women: Nelli Bly, Dr. Marie Stopes, Dr. Grace Feder Thompson
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Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

Orange Blossom medicine for "all female diseases": headaches, stomach illness,
insomnia, depression, cancer, tumors, constipation, flatulence,
fertility, menstruation, hemorrhoids, etc., U.S.A., 19th-20th centuries

Orange Blossom was a cure-all medicine similar to Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and scores of other 19th and early century patent medicines offered in the U.S.A. See here for a discussion of Mrs. Pinkham and the medicine business.

Sending away for diagnoses, as requested on the cover, was popular. Click on Cardui and the other italicized links toward the top of this page for other companies making similar requests.

Below is the cover of a six-page booklet published in 1885 promoting the medicine.

See two inside pages of the booklet, and a package of vaginal suppositories. See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients; Dr. Pierce's medical empire; Lydia E. Pinkham's fabulously successful vegetable compound & trinkets & publications; Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882); Dr. Young's rectal dilators; Orange Blossom medicine; ad for Ergoapiol (1904), an abortion substance; and Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.)
SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated this material to the museum.
Large file, long download!

NEXT: See two inside pages of the booklet, and a package of vaginal suppositories.
Go to Cardui booklet covers, examination sheet, Home Treatment for Women

See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients; Dr. Pierce's medical empire; Lydia E. Pinkham's fabulously successful vegetable compound & trinkets & publications; Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882); Dr. Young's rectal dilators; Orange Blossom medicine; ad for Ergoapiol (1904), an abortion substance; and Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.)