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 Museum of
Menstruation and Women's Health
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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Harry Finley. It is illegal to
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