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
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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.:
Home Exercises
(1915?)
Complete booklet
Below: P. 32. Experience led people to
invent a slogan for Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound:
A baby in every bottle, probably because the potent
alcohol in each bottle loosened up the imbiber's inhibitions and
Whoopee!, nine months later . . . .
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Inside back cover. Last line: No secrets at this
company!
"It has been on the market for forty years"
leads me to date "Home Exercises" to 1915, 40 years after the
company's founding.
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