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What did women do
about menstruation
in the past?
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Special Book for
Women
Booklet (complete) by Gilbert
Thayer
(20 pages, Lafayette, Indiana,
U.S.A., 1920s?)
Below:
Pp. 8-9
Treatment
for "Painful
Menstruation,
Congestion, Diseased
Ovaries, Profuse
Menstruation,
Flooding, Prolapse of
the Vagina, Inflammation
of the Womb,
Displacement of the
Womb, etc.:
To
begin with take
Internal Bath [douche]
every night for at
least six weeks,
and never go bed
at night without using
the Douche. As to eating
leave
meat
alone, do not
drink Tea, Coffee, or
stimulants
of any kind. Eat
as much of your food as
you can in its natural
state, Fruits,
Vegetables and Nuts.
. . . Drink plenty of water
. . . ."
Then follow the exercises
(right-hand page).
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- introduction
(p.1) - 2-3
(Female trouble, corsets) - 4-5
(Vaginal douche) - 6-7
(Pelvic troubles in females,
The generative organs of females)
- 8-9
(Treatment) - 10-11
(About the difficulties of
maternity) - 12-13 -
14-15 -
16-17
(Nervousness) - 18-19
(Headache, Acid stomach, Cancer
can be prevented, Childbirth) - 20
See
an American
douche set from the 1920s -
Fresca douche
powder from the 1920s -
SIMILAR
BOOKS: Lydia Pinkham's Private
Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar
to Women
(1905-1910?)
- The
Happy Baby (Pinkham Co.,
1920s-30s?) - The Intimate
Side of a Woman's Life
by Leona W. Chalmers (1937) - Woman's
Physical Freedom (1923)
by Clelia Duel Mosher, M.D.
ODOR page
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