Read selections from Pierce's The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser; or, Medicine Explained, (below) 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 doe 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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Dr. R. V.
Pierce's patent medicine empire and
hospital, often
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Dr. R. V. Pierce (portrait and signature) made a range of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries in the U.S.A., many probably highly alcoholic, just like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Dr. Pierce was Mrs. Pinkham's most successful competitor.Like Mrs. Pinkham, Dr. Thompson, and the makers of Cardui, the company had a medical consulting service where the favorite piece of advice was to use its product. (See here for more general information about patent medicine.)Below are the covers of a 1914 calendar and advertising booklet (read the whole booklet here), and, at bottom, an undated but modern-looking tin of "vaginal tablets" (see a box of his tablets). (And look what some women were wearing in 1914 to protect their clothing from menstrual leakage.)Here are selections from Pierce's The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English; or, Medicine Simplified, (cover) 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; see Dr. Abbey's similar interest), portrait of Pierce, and his hospital.Was Dr. Pierce a hypocrite about masturbation?Here are interior pages. See a barn with an advertisement for Dr. Pierce.SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the Dr. Pierce material to this museum. |
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Front cover of the 1914 booklet. (Whole booklet here) |
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Back cover of the same booklet. |
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Undated tin of tablets. |
NEXT: See interior pages and a barn with an advertisement for Dr. Pierce.