More patent medicine Cardui | Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients | Dr. Pierce's medicines | Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882) | Dr. Young's rectal dilators | Lydia Pinkham's medicine | Orange Blossom medicine | ad for Dr. Schenk's Mandrake Pills, appearing on a trade card for journalist Nellie Bly. 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? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | the 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, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | 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 Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. Wampole's Antiseptic Vaginal Cones of Boroglyceride Compound, and the same with ichthyol Sheet of products' descriptions (late 19th, early 20th century?), back and front, and a notice of misbranding judgment against the product, one of four, 1930 Alcohol ruled the 19th century! Well, together with opium, morphine - it's a big list. So why is this Wampole vaginal cone - women inserted it into their vaginas - featured here? Because the public and finally the new Food & Drug Administration got mad enough to do something about the feel-good medicines (and sometimes not even that) that people bought, lured by companies into believing that their many ills could be gulped - or inserted - away and which, just by (cough) coincidence (cough), made entrepreneurs millions of dollars. The "medicine" below formed part of the crackdown on quacks. Which has not ended. What a way to cheat Americans! See a box of similar Wampole's Vaginal Cones. More 1930s fraud exposed in products for women. ................................................................. Below: The 5 9/16 x 8 3/4" (about 14.1 x 22.2 cm) sheet was folded into quarters then folded into thirds - imagine having to do that all day - and probably included in a box of these cones. Below: The other side of the sheet. Below: One of the Food & Drug Administration's judgments against the product (I added the red) in U. S. v. 34 11/12 Dozen Packages (link on that page, from which this copy is taken). More judgments against the product (links) at http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/fdanj/items-by-subject?subject=Wampole%27s+vaginal+cones+boroglyceride+compound+with+ichthyol Main article about Wampolep's Vaginal Cones, these with toxic picric acid More patent medicine: Murray & Nickell Blue Cohosh Root | Murray & Nickell Cotton Root Bark | Allaire Woodward & Co. Oak Bark-White | Wampole's Vaginal Cones with Picric Acid | Humphreys "31" | Orange Blossom Suppositories | Dr. Pierce's Vaginal Tablets | Micajah's Medicated Wafers | Santrex Formula 52T | Sedets SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the medicine to this museum, part of her huge gift of medical instruments, books and advertising material about women's health. Harry Finley created the images. <··· NEXT ···> Dr. Pierre's Boro-Pheno-Form and introduction | Murray & Nickell Blue Cohosh Root | Murray & Nickell Cotton Root Bark | Allaire Woodward & Co. Oak Bark-White | Wampole's Vaginal Cones with Picric Acid | Humphreys "31" | Orange Blossom Suppositories | Dr. Pierce's Vaginal Tablets | Micajah's Medicated Wafers | Santrex Formula 52T | Sedets © 2014 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