Other amazing women: Nellie
Bly, Lydia Pinkham,
Dr. Marie Stopes
Historical remedies for menstrual
period pain and problems. See more remedies here.
 
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A pioneering woman physician and a mail-order business for women's
diseases and menstruation:
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson
In keeping with the aggressive American style of the era (or any era,
for that matter) - this material is dated 1912 -
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson, of San Francisco, looked for "mail-order"
patients to cure by a method not revealed in the letter
below. I think it's a
masterpiece of American advertising.
Obviously - look at the examination sheet
and return envelope - the recipient never took
Dr. Thompson's offer. So much for my opinion.
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 file, long download! Sorry! But I want
you to be able to read the letter.
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Dr. Thompson's exam sheet and the envelope
it came in, and the enclosed return envelope. Her biography.
First page of Dr. Thompson
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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