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See what might be the earliest preserved pad and belt in America (1850s) in the collection of the Valentine Richmond History Center in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
Sphagnum moss (peat moss) in pads: SFAG-NA-KINS, U.S.A., ads (1919) and box (date?) (neither are in the MUM physical collection) - in Vania Ultra (France), ad, Oct. 1994
See
more Tampax items: American ad from
August 1965 -
nudity in an ad: May
1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign advertising
Tampax during World War II - the original patent - an instruction sheet
from the 1930s
See a Modess True
or False? ad in The American Girl
magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in
"How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad
(1955) - Modess . . .
. because ads (many dates).
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The life of Dr. Alfred Lewis Galabin in a
British Medical Journal obituary, April 5, 1913
Offered in connection with two articles
about "new" menstrual pads (towels) in the late 19th century
that Southall's sold, and a "cremator" for burning used pads
Nineteenth-century obituaries in America and apparently in the United Kingdom could be much longer than today's. As you read in old New York Times editions, the articles sometimes gave hour-by-hour accounts of the person's dying, his or her words, and of the persons entering and leaving the room of the dying, although not in the obit below. This might be an expression of the so-called good death revered in 19th-century America, which did not mean the euthanasia of today. Americans today usually want little to do with death.
Because of the print size the article is hard to read; I apologize. And for Americans the intricacies of the British academic system are bizarre. Take it from me, Alfred Galabin did well in academia and in the medical world.
And he played four-handed chess! See the board at the end of the obituary.
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Below:
From The British Medical Journal, April 5, 1913.
I thank JSTOR for the obituary.
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He was an outstanding student at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Entrance of Guy's Hospital, 1820, founded in 1721 by Thomas Guy.
Two men carry a person on a stretcher next to a weeping woman.
from Google
Some notable people who worked at Guy's:
The discoverers of penicillin, Addison's Disease, Bright's Disease, Hodgkin's lymphoma, vitamins, the coiners of "anorexia nervosa" and "psychedelic drug," the inventor of the laryngoscope, and the poet John Keats as well as philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, a hospital porter there during WWII
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Below: Four-handed chess board. Dr. Galabin "was a very good chess player and was a member of the Four-handed Chess Club from its founding in 1885." Image from Wikipedia |  |
Dr. Galabin shows a cremator and new menstrual pads.
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Read Gretchen Worden's obituary. She was chief of the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia and
a board member of this museum.See what might be the earliest preserved pad and belt in America (1850s) in the collection of the Valentine Richmond History Center in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
Some Southall's American ads
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