See Kurb, a Midol competitor from Kotex.
Midol newspaper ads 1911 ad with ingredients: NOT! - Slogan contest, 1911, etc.
More Midol ads (magazine): 1938, 1939, 1948, 1960
Midol booklet (selections), 1959
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 |
Founder bio |
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.

Midol menstrual pain & PMS reliever tins, U.S.A.,
1911-1970s?
ca. 1936

See the first page.

More Midol ads (magazine): 1938, 1939, 1948, 1960
Midol newspaper ads 1911 ad with ingredients: NOT! - Slogan contest, 1911, etc.
Midol booklet (selections), 1959
I thank the retired teacher who generously sent these tins!

Below: The outside of the top of the ca. 1936 metal box is the same size as the 1911 box:
2 3/4 x 1 3/16 x 1/4" (6.8 x 3 x 0.5 cm) . The words "Midol 10 tablets"
are in relief. The bottom is the same as the 1911 box.
 
Below: Inside the box. The words in the top are on a piece of paper and the
bottom is lined with black paper. Two pills remain. The box doesn't reveal
what the pills are made of although later boxes do.
This is the correct color.
 
Below: An enlarged pill showing MIDOL, which also graces the other side. Headache, anyone?

Below: The loose paper insert in the box measures 4 7/8 x 2 7/8" (12.2 x 7.4 cm) when opened, as shown
(it folds vertically down the center).
The nurse looks as if she needs a Midol, fast.
 
 
Below: This is the only donated box that can be dated by enclosed text.
 
Below: Around 1936-37 Midol made a bigger box (3 3/16 x 1 3/16", 8 x 3 cm) in response to competition
from Kurb, from Kotex, among others. The box is shown out of proportion to the one above.
 
Below: This bigger box (back enlarged below) also carried the ingredients of the pills, the first time among the
boxes the museum has.
http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/3/295 writes this about cinnamyl-ephedrine:
1. Cinnamylephedrine (d, l, and dl) is about ten times as potent a surface anesthetic as cocaine when tested by the rabbit's cornea method. Irritation occurs when concentrations of one per cent or greater are used.

2. When tested by the human intradermal wheal method, cinnamylephedrine (d, l, and dl) is about twenty times as potent as procaine. The compound is somewhat irritating and causes an erythema which persists from twelve to twenty-four hours.

 

NEXT | 1911 - ca. 1936 - ca. 1943 - 1948-mid 1950s - mid-late 1950s to 1960 - 1961-67 - 1967-70s?
Midol newspaper ads 1911 ad with ingredients: NOT! - Slogan contest, 1911. See Kurb, Midol's competitor from Kotex. Other Midol ads (magazine): 1938, 1939, 1948, 1960 - Midol booklet (selections), 1959


© 2007 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 hfinley@mum.org
See also Australian douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan (1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone menstrual pain pills ad, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of Vaginal Douching (essay by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page