Historical remedies for menstrual period
pain and problems. See more remedies here.
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
 
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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.:
Post Card Showing Stanford University, probably before
the
San Francisco earthquake (1906)
The Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company and its Vegetable
Compound were everywhere. Mrs. Pinkham, her family and her advertising
staff believed in advertising, even to the entent of showing educational
institutions.
This card is one of a series the company produced showing well-known
universities, such as Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and, below,
The Leland Stanford Jr. University - now called Stanford University - in
Palo Alto, California.
The colors are surreal but beautiful, an artifact of the color-printing
capabilities of the time. An e-mailer corrected my date of the 1920s by
noting the intact gate, which was damaged in the 1906 earthquake and not
repaired.
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NEXT: Old bottles
for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound - See more Mrs. Pinkham, below (and see her first page)
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.
Part of the donation of SarahAnne Hazelwood to this museum, much of
it patent medicine and old medical equipment, was 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.
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
See also the patent medicine Cardui,
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's
letter appealing for patients, Dr. Pierce's medicines,
and Orange Blossom medicine.
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