More Personal Digest leaflets. How Modess Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson." How Kotex began. Modess "Panti-kini" (two-band holder to hold pad in crotch; 1960s-1970s, U.S.A.) Modess "Sanitary Shield" (two-band pad holder in crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.) More panties. Read Modess pads history What did women do about menstruation in the past? 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 (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) | Artists (non-menstrual) | Asbestos | Belts | Bidets | Birth control and religion | Birth control drugs, old | Birth control douche & sponges | Founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) | Cats | Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | Contraception and religion | Contraceptive drugs, old | Contraceptive douche & sponges | Costumes | Menstrual cups | Cup usage | Dispensers | Douches, pain, sprays | Essay directory | Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) | Extraction | Facts-of-life booklets for girls | Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory | 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, towel, napkin 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 | Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory | 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) | Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory | 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. MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH Personal Digest leaflet MS-67-16 (Personal Products, 1967, U.S.A.) Read about these leaflets. More Personal Digest leaflets. 1927: Gilbreth report to Johnson & Johnson about pads, Kotex & Modess - Modess newspaper ads 1927-28 - Modess ads: "Silent Purchase" ad, June 1928 - ad, 1928 - ad, April 1929 ("Don't weaken, Mother") - ad, June 1929 ("Never mind, Mother, you'll learn") - ad about concealing pad, 1930 - How Modess Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson" - See also Growing up and liking it, How shall I tell my daughter? and Lynn Peril's article about the genre. Tambrands, the former maker of Tampax tampons, kindly donated the leaflet (& more). Below: See the first page of the 4-page leaflet at far right. Each page measures about 2 3/4 x 4 1/2" (7 x 11.4 cm). See a 1967 Meds tampon (same year as this leaflet) & Modess belts. Below: Reverse side. I once thought "hospital size" meant that they were so large they caused people to think of a hospital building. Hey, I'm just a guy. They were meant to absorb the heavy vaginal/uterine discharge after childbirth or a very heavy discharge in a regular period. More Personal Digest leaflets. 1927: Gilbreth report to Johnson & Johnson about pads & Modess - newspaper ads 1927-28 - Modess ads: "Silent Purchase" ad, June 1928 - ad, 1928 - ad, April 1929 ("Don't weaken, Mother") - ad, June 1929 ("Never mind, Mother, you'll learn") - ad about concealing pad, 1930 - How Modess Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson" - See also Growing up and liking it, How shall I tell my daughter? and Lynn Peril's article about the genre. Read Modess pads history. What did women do about menstruation in the past? © 2009 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to [email protected]\