Other amazing women: Nellie Bly, Lydia Pinkham, Dr. Marie Stopes
See Cardui patent medicine, Lydia Pinkham's Compound, Dr. Pierce's medicine and Orange Blossum medicine.
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |

MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

 

A pioneering woman physician and a mail-order business for women's
diseases and menstruation: Dr. Grace Feder Thompson
Envelopes she mailed to prospective patients

The upper envelope contained the return envelope (bottom) and the two other sheets (letter; exam sheet front, back) from Dr. Thompson seen in this section. Dr. Thompson offered a mail-order medical treatment.

San Francisco must have been excited about its exposition, or maybe things were just a bit slow; the postmark promotes an event taking place three years hence.

SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the Thompson advertising material to this museum. The daughter of Dr. Thompson's third husband, Jerrie Wacholder, contributed the biographical information and documents.

Large files, long download!

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Go to Dr. Thompson's cover letter - exam sheet (front), (back) - biography

See a similar examination sheet for the patent medicine Cardui.
See Cardui patent medicine, Dr. Pierce's empire, and Lydia Pinkham's Compound
Other amazing women: Nellie Bly, Lydia Pinkham, Dr. Marie Stopes
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