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Booklet, with an image on front in blue and black of a seated woman holding a fan. Contents include descriptions of historical figures as well as advertisements and testimonials for Lydia Pinkham ...

Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic “A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All ...

TWO almost legendary ladies, both of whom figured largely in the spiritual life of the nineties, have been discussed. in biographies recently. One is Madame Blavatsky; the other is Lydia Pinkham. The ...

LYDIA PINKHAM IS HER NAME (279 pp.)—Jean Burton—Farrar, Straus ($2.75). When the panic of 1873 hit Lynn, Mass., Real Estate Agent Isaac Pinkham and his 54-year-old wife Lydia found themselves flat ...

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I’m taking a mental health day by avoiding news and immersing myself in medical history. It’s a literary cleanse. I’m reading Sarah Stage’s Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s ...

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Right: Elixirs such as Lydia Pinkham’s provided relief for both men and woman in 1899 when the Mayor of Concord banned the sale of ale and malt liquors in Concord pharmacies. Credit: Concord Public ...