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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.

"The 20th Century Song Book"
(menstrual, kidney & liver problems, constipation & bowels, tiredness, indigestion, colic, colds, chills, fever, childbirth, rheumatism, arthritis, leuchorrhea, dizziness, pain, headache, "female weakness," etc.)
Chattanooga Medicine Company, U.S.A., 1904
Complete booklet, 32 pages plus covers

See the Cardui booklet covers, ads & bottle label with ingredients; examination sheet; and The Twentieth Century Song Book. Midol pain reliever pills for menstruation: old tins (containers), old ads, old booklet (selections). More patent medicine on this site || Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients - Dr. Pierce's medicines - Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882) - Dr. Young's rectal dilators - Orange Blossom medicine - ad for Ergoapiol (1904), abortion substance - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) YOUR remedies for menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here.

Below: Pp. 4-5. Read the lyrics of the first of the sad songs that populate this booklet that advertises medicine that's supposed
to keep you alive. It may simply be typical of the sentimental aura of the era but it seems at odds with the purpose of the text,
saving people. But witnessing death was common then and maybe the songs reflect a familiarity with it.
Drew Faust, the president of Harvard (2008), greatly increased my understanding of these songs through her exlanation of the Good Death
in her fabulous This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Knopf, 2008) .
Several of the songs are hymns. Lacking radio and recorded music, people of the time often played instruments and sang at home,
in social organizations (many of the pictured ladies were members of major organizations) and in church. Until the phonograph,
the only non-musical instrument source of music was the music box, and 18th-century French aristocrats danced to it.
I don't know what S. of T. was but the fact that its initials were used means that it was well known enough to the readers of this booklet.
Membership in such organizations was much higher then than now.

NEXT cover inside front cover & page 1 pages 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23 24-25 26-27 28-29 30-31 32-inside back cover back cover || All patent medicine on this site || Cardui's 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.
Midol pain reliever pills for menstruation: old tins (pill containers), ads, booklet (selections)

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