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Lehn & Fink New Improved [menstrual, contraceptive?] Tampon with hydroxyquinoline
(1930s-1940s? Lehn & Fink Products Corporation [Lysol], U.S.A.)

Discussion.

Procter & Gamble kindly donated the box and contents as part of a gift of scores of menstrual products.


Below: Back and front sides of the instruction sheet (interior sides). The sheet as shown measures 8 x 6" (20.2 x 16.3 cm).
After folding it vertically in half the sheet folds horizontally so the top of the right-hand page forms the
back of the twice-folded sheet.
You can read the third paragraph as describing its CONTRACEPTIVE action: are clot and fluid
stand-ins for semen? "Nothing remains on top of the Tampon . . . . Fluid can neither cake
on the top nor leak through the lower part of this Tampon."
The toxic shock crisis starting at the end of the 1970s caused a rethinking of
the length of time a person could have a tampon in her vagina.
See a tampon designed specifically for the "waning" days of the period.
 

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