YOUR remedies for menstrual period
pain and problems.
A discussion of the letter testimonials,
and their authenticity, of the Pinkham company (in a discussion of a Pursettes
ad with a letter testimonial)
See two letters to MUM about the ingredients
of her Compound, and one about the lyrics of an English
pop song, Lily the Pink, about her.
Other amazing women: Nelli
Bly, Dr. Marie Stopes,
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson
YOUR remedies for
menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here.
 
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The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., maker of medicine for headaches,
stomach illness, insomnia, depression, cancer, tumors, women's diseases,
flatulence, menstruation, fertility, etc.:
Lydia Pinkham's Private Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar
to Women
(1905-1910?)
Complete book
Mrs. Pinkham was a mail-order doctor, not a physician.
She published this free self-help book in which the help is usually Mrs.
Pinkham's medicines, consisting mostly of high percentage
alcohol. It worked for many cases and made her rich (read more about Mrs. Pinkham). But read two
objections to my assertion that alcohol was the main effective ingredient.
Later, companies that made menstrual pads
and tampons published booklets for pubescent girls also recommended their
own products (an example from 1964). So, what else
would they do - recommend the competition?
Internal evidence dates this
edition to about 1905-1910.
See many links to her products in the left-hand column. See other kinds of patent
medicine.
The Schlesinger Library, of the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study, part of Harvard University, has probably the
largest collection of material about the Pinkham
enterprise, the records of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company.
SarahAnne Hazlewood generously donated the book to this museum as
well as a very interesting biography and study of Mrs. Pinkham's business,
Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business
of Women's Medicine by Sarah Stage.
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Below: Front cover (gray); the back cover
& spine are blank. It measures
4 x 6 1/4" (10.5 x 15.7 cm).
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Below: Mrs. Pinkham's entrepreneurial
and alert face. One blank page separates the cover from this page.
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Below: P. 1. The page arrived glued
crooked onto the frontispiece.
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