A contemporary patent medicine empire: Read selections from Dr. R.V. Pierce's The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser; or, Medicine Explained, (1895, Buffalo, New York, from Pierce's own press at his World's Dispensary Medical Association: "Spermatorrhea' (loss of semen without copulation, which usually means masturbation), portrait of Pierce, and his hospital.See also Cardui patent medicine booklet covers, testimonials, examination sheetSee Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and Orange Blossom medicine, Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements, which emphasises masturbation, as does Dr. Pierce, and several small boxes of old American patent medicine for women.See the Wix tampon, instructions, patent, The Fascinating Story of Wix (and another version) and store instruction sheet. And read an ad in the Sears catalog for Wix and see a Wix tampon store display ad.Early commercial tamponsAds for the Kotex
stick tampon (U.S.A., 1970s) - a Japanese stick tampon
from the 1970s.
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S. B. Hartman,
M.D. Lectures on Chronic Catarrh,
(ca. 1895)
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Main page.
SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the booklet to this museum. |
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Preface. Look at the gallery above the
ceiling. The Collier's article said that patent medicine doctors frequently exaggerated their premises. That might be the case here. |
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Ladies' hats
not only dominate the men's view behind
them, they dominate the whole booklet. |
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Below:
The words under Dr. Hartman's table
(below), look likeTerry Eng. Co., Col's, O.which probably mean Terry Engineering Company, Columbus, OhioIt's strange that the artist's name is missing. But even stranger is "engineering company." Maybe that's the wrong reading. |
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Cover | contents | preface | introduction | [pp. 2-64 skipped] | 65 female catarrh | 66 female debility | 67 catarrh; vulvitis; catching cold | 68 The working woman; the society woman | 69 pruritis vulvae | 70 catarrh of bladder | 71 [illustration only] "Health and Beauty are Inseparable" | 72 vaginitis; leucorrhea (whites) | 73 bearing-down pains | 74 heavy skirts; a typical case of vaginal leucorrhea | 75 endometritis | 76 pe-ru-na is harmless | 77 catarrhal amenorrhea | 78 menorrhagia; metorrhagia | 79 dysmenorrhea | 80 [illustration only] "Perfect Health Brings Beauty" | 81 salpingitis | 82 barrenness | 83 change of life [menopause] | 84 catarrhal congestion | 85 no narcotics; constipation; your diet | 86 an interesting case continued | 87 the nerves and catarrh; hysteria | 88 nervous prostration | 89 a merchant's wife; a farmer's wife | 90 [illustration only] "The Only Road to Beauty is Health" | 91 catarrh continued | 92 clean skin; massage baths | 93 facial blemishes; mask for face and hands | 94 heredity | 95 false modesty | 96 health and beauty | 97 epidemic catarrh or la grippe [influenza, flu] 98 gentle laxative; after effects of la grippe