Lydia E. Pinkham Vegtable Compound, sans 14 1/2 ozs. (c.1880-1920) & Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine, with 14 1/2 oz., Owen and Whitall-Tatum (c.1915-1925).
"Lydia E. Pinkham converted her home medicine remedy to a major business, and pioneered advertising to women. That her patent medicine had a high percentage alcohol content didn't hurt its attraction -- and some temperance leaders unwittingly lent their names to her advertising campaigns."
"The ingredients in Lydia's compound were never a secret: licorice, chamomile, pleurisy root, Jamaica dogwood, black cohosh, life plant, fenugreek seed and dandelion root. Little wonder that no one ever copied or tried to imitate it." - Doris B. Linden
The Story of Lydia Pinkham -- http://www.glswrk-auction.com/025.htm
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