Other amazing women:
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson,
Nellie Bly,
Lydia Pinkham
Historical
remedies for menstrual period pain and
problems. See more remedies here.
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(A book first published in 1918)
Married Love
by Marie Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc., London;
Ph.D., Munich
Fellow of University College London;
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and of t
he Linnean and Geological Societies,
London. First published in 1918 and, by
1931,
translated into 10 languages. This first
American edition was published in 1931 by
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York (The
Knickerbocker Press)
The amazing Scotswoman Dr. Marie Stopes,
founder of the first
birth control clinic in the British
Empire (The Mothers' Clinic in
London, still running), in 1921, wrote this
ground-breaking book
that devoted a chapter to the cyclic nature of women's
sexual desire, a first, part of which
appears below.
SarahAnne
Hazlewood generously donated this book
to the museum.
LAST pages - SEE Dr.
Grace Feder Thompson's letter
appealing for patients & Nellie Bly
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Dr.
Stopes makes a great point
about the end of abstention
because of menstruation being the
peak of a woman's sexual desire
AND about the time for maximum
fertility, roughly halfway through
the menstrual cycle.
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LAST pages - SEE Dr.
Grace Feder Thompson's letter
appealing for patients, Nellie Bly, Lydia Pinkham, Dr. Pierce's
medicines, the patent medicine Cardui, and Orange Blossom
medicine.
First, second
Stopes page
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