Women’s Health
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A poster with three different images from photographs of the individual, who is a professional nurse who claims to be a physician. Among his aliases “Nativity Hollander” Includes a comprehensive description including an active quick and nervous disposition, slightly bow legged. It also lists his relative with addresses. Issued by.....
Price: $75.00
Patent Medicines, Meaning of Flowers
New Haven: The C.G. Clark Co., 1869. Trade catalog marketed to women, advertising patent medicines sold by the C.G. Clark Co. Contents include "A Correct Dictionary of Flowers" on the rectos, relating the meanings of over 100 different varieties of flowers; advertisements and testimonials printed on versos. Calendar for the.....
Price: $75.00
Menopause, Sexual Health and Education
Princeton, New Jersey: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, 1985. An educational booklet for women approaching menopause. Includes a general overview, along with more detailed information about its physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms and effects. It closes with a description of how to manage symptoms medically. Interestingly, the booklet has a section titled.....
Price: $150.00
Diets and Dieting, Nutrition, Societal Pressures
United States: 1939-c.1970. A group of eight (8) items relating to women's weight loss and dieting in the United States, 1939-c.1970. All are marketed to women, and include basic nutrition information, recipes, and tips for those looking to "reduce" through dieting. Calorie counting is a major theme, as well as.....
Price: $350.00
Advertising, Fashion, Women, Business
Cincinnati, Ohio: Queen City Suspender Company, [1880s?]. Advertisement for Mrs. Smith's Skirt Suspenders, sold by the Queen City Suspender Co. of Cincinnati, with confident claims: "The most desirable and beneficial article ever invented for the relief of women, many of whom have suffered long years of miserable health, caused solely.....
Price: $175.00
Public Health, Breast Cancer
Silver Spring, Maryland: American Cancer Society, c.1975. Printed tri-fold pamphlet (9" by 3.75" folded) with an illustrated three-step guide to performing a self breast exam. Encourages the reader to perform a self examination monthly, and details warning signs and what to do if a lump is located. Includes black ink.....
Price: $85.00
Women's History, Osteopathic, Osteopathic medicine, medicine, periodicals
Chicago, IL: American Osteopathic Assn, Jan-28. A volume of the journal of Osteopathic Health that focuses on women's health and how osteopathy can help. Osteopathy is a system of medical practice based on the theory that diseases are mostly due to loss of structural integrity of the body which can.....
Price: $65.00
Sex, Sex Education, Gender Roles, Marriage
United States: 1914-1964. A grouping of six (6) sex education booklets published between 1914 and 1964. Largely written for female readers, the majority address mothers as they navigate how to tell their children about sex, as well as new wives as they navigate the dynamic between sex and marriage. The.....
Price: $350.00
Public Health, Uterine Cancer
Silver Spring, Maryland: American Cancer Society, c.1975. "Stay Healthy!" and "Know Cancer's Warning Signals!", urges this photo-illustrated folding pamphlet (7.25" by 3.25" folded) in four panels produced by the American Cancer Society. Includes detailed information on what uterine cancer is, who is susceptible to it, and how Pap tests work.....
Price: $85.00
Hair Loss, Remedies, Pharmaceuticals, Beauty
Cincinnati, Ohio: Mrs. Potter's Hygienic Depot, c.1905. A pamphlet advertising a line of hair dyes and hair loss remedies by Mrs. Potter's Hygienic Depot. Marketed towards women, it begins with a discussion of the causes of gray hair ("Premature gray hair is caused by Female Disorders", p. 3) and emphasizes.....
Price: $75.00
Colonics, Health and wellness, Public health, women's health, constipation
New York: Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute, 1916. Photographically illustrated booklet promoting "Internal Baths", i.e. colonics, and advertising the J.B.L. Cascade treatment. Disease the treatment purports to treat or cure include appendicitis, eczema, indigestion, mental distress, obesity, painful childbirth, and "that tired feeling", among other afflictions. Includes several pages of testimonials from.....
Price: $185.00
Private Printing, Women's Health, Satire, Facsimiles, Illustration
1930s. A quirky illustrated facsimile of an eighteenth-century treatise written as a hoax. The disgruntled author had been rejected by the Royal Society for membership in 1750, and his response was to publish proof "that a Woman may conceive, and be brought to Bed, without any Commerce with a Man".....
Price: $150.00
Venereal Disease, Sex Education, Strand Theatre, Cinema, Social Welfare
New York City: Siebel Co., 1919. A single-fold pamphlet promoting "Fit to Win" a feature film on venereal disease. The tile page depicts a pert woman and is captioned "Did Dad Ever Warn You Against Her? The pamphlet captions read "SOWING WILD OATS IS EASY--IT IS THE REAPING THAT MAY.....
Price: $150.00
Estrogen, Hormone Therapy, Women's Health, Misogyny, Medicine
New York: 1965. Promotional pamphlet for Premarin Replacement Estrogen Therapy, intended "for relief of menopausal distress and management of postmenopausal disorders" (upper wrapper). Includes a photograph of a "defeminized" woman (i.e. post-menopausal) and a "complete" woman (i.e. post-menopausal with hormone therapy), as well as photographs showing typical vaginal smear results.....
Price: $125.00
Patent Medicine, Women's Health, Early Learning, Diseases
Boston, Massachusetts: New England Botanic Depot, 1890s. An illustrated ABC booklet for children advertising patent medicines sold by the New England Botanic Depot, including Dr. Swett's "Female Strengthening Cordial" that purports to treat "all derangements of the Female Reproductive Organs". Each letter has an accompanying eight-line rhyme and wood engraved.....
Price: $150.00
Pseudocyesis, False Pregnancy, Phantom Pregnancy, Psychology, Medical Research
Bloomington, Indiana: The Principia Press, Inc., c.1937. A prospectus for a monograph on Pseudocyesis, or false pregnancy, published in 1937 by The Principia Press. Women who appear to be pregnant and exhibit all of the same signs and symptoms, but do not carry a fetus, are described to have Pseudocyesis.....
Price: $175.00
sex education, gender roles, sexually transmitted disease, governmental, religion
Great Britain: 1923. This grouping contains four booklets from the series entitled "Sex Problems", and provides sexual education on a variety of topics. The booklets are eight pages long and were written by a "T. P. S." in 1923, and promote a "Clean Sex Life both before and after marriage".....
Price: $200.00