Herbs & tinctures "to regulate the menses" were advertised in Colonial newspapers. Every time I hear

[Hekate]

7. Thank you, Sir. In some ways you are just my kind of scholar, querying not just the headlines...

…but the back matter for insight into the times and the audience.

I learn, I keep learning, and too often since the years leading up to Dobbs it’s with the sinking feeling of “Why didn’t I know that?” I thought I was educated and knowledgeable, and in a way, I really was. Yet over the years at DU I have read some of our members insisting that “We won’t go back,” and they are so very sure that history and everyday knowledge cannot and will not be lost. Whereas I, in my mid-70s, stand testament to centuries of suppressed and therefore lost women’s reproductive history. And Sam Alito stands testament to the power of fanatics to state adamantly and under oath that abortion was “always” illegal and felonious, and that there was never any such thing as women’s reproductive rights because they aren’t rights.

Thank you for adding yet another data point to what I know.