More patent medicine HOMEPAGE CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: HOMEPAGE | LIST OF ALL TOPICS | 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. Cardui medicine for difficult menstruation, leucorrhea, backache, headache, dizziness and general female diseases Covers of "Home Treatment [of] Female Diseases" (1894) and "Home Treatment for Women" Below are the covers of two booklets published by the Chattanooga Medicine Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee (U.S.A.), giving the comments of satisfied customers of Cardui patent medicine about how the medicine helped with menstruation, tumors and othet "female complaints." The upper one is dated 1894, the other undated. See two pages of testimonials from the lower booklet, probably the more recent of the two. CLICK on the images to get the COMPLETE booklets. Read the complete The 20th Century Song Book and Home Treatment for Women. More patent medicine SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the Cardui material to this museum. Large files, long download Go to Cardui bottle box, testimonials, examination sheet, excepts from the Cardui Song Book - See Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients, Dr. Pierce's empire and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. More patent medicine © 1997 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org