– Hormone Replacement Oils, in green 3 x 2 x 3/4 cardboard b
- Hormone Replacement Oils, in green 3” x 2” x 3/4” cardboard boxes. Unopened. Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Progesterone in Oil, 6 ampoules, “a solution of corpus luteum hormones in sesame oil…for use in replacement therapy in deficiency of the corpus luteum hormone.” No. 422
Diethylstilbestrol in Oil “a synthetic estrogenic substance in cotton seed oil…for replacement therapy in deficiency of the estrogenic hormone.” No. 347
32 Medicone Douche Tablets
32 Medicone Douche Tablets, “A Powerful Antiseptic, Non-poisonous, non-injurious even if taken internally.” Gray 2” x 3” box w/blue writing,” includes separate sheet with adertising. Medicone Co., Inc. 12 John Street, New York, N.Y.
50 Corporea Lutea Hormone
50 Corporea Lutea Hormone, “each capsule contains about 30 grains of fresh Corporea Lutea,” in unopened 4” x 1” x 2-1/2” brown bottle with cork. Parke, Davis and Co., Detroit, Michigan.
Ampacoids Ovary Tablets, Pioneers in Glandular Therapy
Ampacoids Ovary Tablets, “Pioneers in Glandular Therapy,” box of 6 rolls each with 25 units having 5 grams of “fresh ovary,” separate sheet with directions 5” x 1” x 5/8.” White cardboard box w/silver and blue writing. Reed and Carnrick. Jersey City, New Jersey.
Armour Mammary Powder
Armour Mammary Powder, “each grain of desciated defatted mammary powder represents 8 grains of fresh glandular substance.” 6 x 2-3/4” brown bottle w/black rubber cap and yellow/green label. Some powder remains. Armour Laboratories, Chicago, Il.
Cardui Glass Medicine Bottle, 8-3/8 tall, w/light greenish tin
Cardui Glass Medicine Bottle, 8-3/8” tall, w/light greenish tint, embossed lettering on sides says, “Caroui, the Women’s Tonic” and “Chattanooga Medicine Co. DATED: 1890s into early 1900s.
Dr. Pierce s Vaginal Tablets, 12 astringent and soothing vagin
Dr. Pierce’s Vaginal Tablets, 12 “astringent and soothing vaginal tablets,” for 35c, in 2” x 2” x 3/4” unopened green cardboard box. Pierce’s Proprietaries Inc., Buffalo, NY. Forty Erie N. Ontario.
Ergoapiol capsules in a yellow and orange tin
Ergoapiol capsules in a yellow and orange tin with Instructions. Tin hold 20 yellow capsules and 5 are still in the 2” x 4” x 1/2” tin. Martin H. Smith Co. Pharmaceutical Chemists. New York. “piol” is an organic chemical compound also known as parsley apiol or parsley camphor. Hippocrates wrote about parsley as a herb to cause an abortion. Plants containing apiol were used by women in the Middle Ages to terminate pregnancies. (Information taken from Wikipedia.) DATE: Circa 1937.
In Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, Helen Gordon gives her husband Richard a tongue-lashing during a quarrel.“Everything I believed in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered...Love was what we had that no one else had or could ever have. And you were a genius and I was your whole life. I was your partner and your little black flower. Slop. Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I’m deaf with it...Love is my insides all messed up. It's half catheters and half whirling douches. I know about love.... All right. I'm through with you and I'm through with love.” (page 185-86)
Hot Water Bottle Covers
Hot Water Bottle Covers
a. Pink silk shantung cover trimmed w/white cord with an appliqued white bow in the center. Cover opens at the top and is tightened w/a strap and snap. Pink lining feels water repellent.
b. Pink silk satin quilted cover, both sides have 4 rows of machine stitching along the edges and a stitched floral design in the center. Narrows at the neck and then fans out, no closure.
Menthagill, One Pound Menthagill Powder
Menthagill, “One Pound Menthagill Powder, Astringent and Deodorant for making a Pleasant and Cleansing Douche For Women and for general purposes,” in round 7-1/2” glass jar. The S.E Massengill Company, Bristol, Tenn.-Va. Unopened.
Newman Douche Powder Verazeptol sample packet
“Newman Douche Powder Verazeptol” sample packet of headache tablets, antacid tablets and directions for use and “Feminine Hygiene, Facts that every woman should know.” In original white and green 4” x 2” x 2” box w/a small picture of a lady wearing a nurse’s cap. A small label wrapped with cellophane says $1.00. Postage stamp in red and blue says “NRA,” with an eagle, “ We do our part. ” Newman Pharmacal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Unopened.
Progynon-Dh Tablets of Estrogenic Substance, 16 tablets remain
Progynon-Dh Tablets of Estrogenic Substance, 16 tablets remain in box that holds 30, with separate sheet of Directions. 3” x 2” x 1/2” white cardboard box with silvery blue writing. Schering Corporation, Bloomfield, New Jersey. DATE: Circa 1939 (1939 on label.)
Sanadora Woman s Menstrual De-ordorant
Sanadora “Woman’s Menstrual De-ordorant, A Necessary Luxury and a Luxurious Necessity,” round dark green tin w/directions. Manufactured by the Winifred Darrow Co., Three River, Mich.
Tabloid Mixed Glands No. 2 (female) Thyroid pills
Tabloid Mixed Glands No. 2 (female) Thyroid pills in unopened glass bottle w/metal top, brownish label w/black lettering. Burroughs Wellcome and Co. New York.
Wallace Institute Weight Reduction Program
Wallace Institute Weight Reduction Program, designed primarily for women. Includes five 78 rpm, “Get thin to music,” a brochure of Mr. Wallace demonstrating the exercises, and a pamphlet, “A Woman’s Birthright,” with meal suggestions, a weight chart and directions. In original box. Wallace Institute, 630 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Copyright 1920. DATED: 1920 - 1922.
