The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
WHO SHE WAS
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of 73" Caused It to be offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores

The three sons and the daughter, with the 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 herDs were steeped on the stove. gradually filling gross of bottles. Then came the ques- tion of selling 1t, for always before they had given it away freely. They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medicine now called Lydia E. Pinkhams Veget- able Compound and these were dstribut- ed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York and Brooklyn.
 The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the de- mand gradually increased.
 In 1877, by combined efforts the fam fly had saved enough money to com mence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise were assured. until today Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Com pound have become household words everywhere and many tons of roots and herbs are used annually in its manu- facture.
 Lydia F. Pnkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work She passed to her rewards years ago, but not till she had provided means for con tinuing her work as effectively as she could have done 1t herself
 During her long and eventful experience she was never methodical in her work and she was always careful to preserve a record of every case that came to her att tention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for-advice and there were thousands-received careful study, and the details. including symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and today these rec ords together with hundreds of thou sands made since, are available to sick women the world over. and represent a vast collaboration of information regard ing 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-law. the present Mrs. Pflk- ham, She was carefully instructed in all her hard-won knowledge. and for years she assisted her in her vast cor respondence.
 To her hands naturally fell the direc- tion of the work when it's originator passed away. For nearly twenty-five years she has continued it, and nothing in the works shows when Lydia E. Pink ham dropped her pen, and the present Mrs Pinkham, now the mother of a large family, took 1t up. With woman assist ants, 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 advised how to regain health. Sick women. this advice is Yours for Health l freely given If you only write to ask i for it.
 | Such is the history of Lydia E.. Pink hams Vegetables Compound; made | from simple roots and herbs; the one great medicine for women's ailments. and | the fitting monument to the noble woman whose narne 1t bears.