The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-23
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PNKIiAM
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
 Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73'' Caused
 1t to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

restore tho family fortune. They
 argued that the medicine which was
 so good for their woman friends and
 neighbors was equally good for the
 women of the whole world.
 The Pinkhams had no money, and
 little credit. Their first laboratory
 was the kitchen, where roots and
 herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling . gross of bottles. Then came the question of ceiling | it. for always before they had given
 1t away freely. They hired q job
 printer to run of some pamphlets
 setting forth the merits of the usedi-.
 cine, now called Lydia B. Pinkham's
 Vegetable Compound, and these were
 distributed by the Pinkham sons in
 Boston, New York. and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to . great extent, se1f-advertising, for whoever used il recommended it to others, and the de- mand gradually increased.
 In 1877, by combined efforts the fam l fly had saved enough money to com mence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of l the enterprise were assured, until to day Lydia B. Pinkham and her vege. table Compound have become house. hold words everywhere, and many tons of roots and herbs are used nnnu. ally in its manufacture.
 Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work. She passed to her reward years
 ago, but not till she had provided
 means for continuing her work as effectively as she could have done 1t herself.
 During her long and eventful expe-' rience she was ever methodical in her
 work and she was always careful topre- her attention. The case of every sick
 woman who applied to her for advice and there were thousands--received careful study, and the details, includ- ing symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since, ara available to sick women the world over, and represent Q vast collahora- tion of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills, which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly
 be equaled in any library in the world. With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
 daughter in Jaw. the present Mrs. Pinkham. She was carefully instructed in all her hard-won knowledge, and
 for years she assisted her in her vast correspondence.
 To her hands naturally fell the direction of the work when its origina-
 tor passed away. For nearly twenty five years she has continued it, and
 nothing in the work shows when the
 first Lydia D. Pinkham dropped her
 pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham.
 now the mother of 8 large family, took it up. With women assistants, some as capable as herself, the present Mrs.
 Pinkham continues this great work, and
 probably from the office of no other
 person have so many women been ad.
 vised how to regain health. Sick wo.
 men, this advice is "Yours for HealthH
 freely given if you only write to ask
 for it.
 Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink
 hams Vegetable Compound: mada
 from simple roots and herbs; the one
 great medicine for women's ailments, and the fitting monument to the nobla woman whose name it bears.