2006-11-09 11:48:20 · 11 answers · asked by Terence 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
That depends on what culture, indians, white man, spanish, egypt.
Some used leaves, hides, wooden cups, cotton, dryed hay.
Women in earlier times like 1700, 1800,1900's used rags. They would use cloth, clothes no longer good to wear, sheets torn in strips, and such under their petticoats.
Life was so much harder, and women learned to COPE.
2006-11-09 11:58:07 · answer #1 · answered by Nevada Pokerqueen 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Read someplace that Indians use straw, bound with pieces of weed made into binding. Almost like tiny floor mats, that they burried under trees as fertilizer.
Some say that they made pads of scraps of cloth sewed together and washed them out and reused them. Scraps of flannel.
2006-11-09 19:52:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Rags of cloth tied to the body with ribbon-like material.
2006-11-09 19:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by Isis 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i believe the first tampons were made of greased, rolled up lamb's wool eww!
2006-11-09 20:02:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
moss, soft leather swatches, cattail down, the fluffy underfeathers of birds.
2006-11-09 19:51:32 · answer #5 · answered by orphanannie 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
RAGS... hence the common terms for it today.
2006-11-09 19:50:25 · answer #6 · answered by Jess W 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
rags, hence the derogatory term "on the rag"
2006-11-09 19:50:25 · answer #7 · answered by mahz85 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i heard that they used sea sponges
2006-11-09 20:13:28 · answer #8 · answered by alinanonymous 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Squirrells, rats, and other miscelaneous small woodland creatures.
2006-11-09 19:54:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋
i think she was sent to a private cave to die alone
2006-11-09 19:51:19 · answer #10 · answered by Cymbaline 5 · 2⤊ 7⤋