French periodical pills - Warranted to have the desired effect in all cases
Published: 1845
Language: eng
Format: Text
Subjects: Abortion -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1840-1850.; Birth control -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1840-1850.; Women -- Domestic life -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1840-1850.
Description: Advertisment by Dr. L. Monroe in the Boston daily times newspaper for "French periodical pills" for regulation of "the monthly turns of females." Advertisement advises that "ladies married should not take them if they have reason to believe they are enciente (sic), as they are sure to produce a miscarriage."
Notes: Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 59.
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Item in: Boston Daily Times. [Boston, Mass.] : George Roberts, 1845 January 6, p. 4, column 6. (bound volume no. 8256).