The Newtown bee., 1906-01-05
WHO SHE WAS.
Sketch of the Life of Lydia E. Pinkham,
And q True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had Its Birth and How the "Panic OF 49,
Caused it to be Offered for Public
Sale in Drug Stores.

with their mother, combined forces to
restore the family fortune. They ar
gued 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 aud herbs
we're stepped on the stove, gradually
filling a gross of bottles. Then came
the question of selling it, for always
before they had given it away freely.
They hired a job printer to run OF
some pamphlets setting forth the mer-
its of the medicine, now called Lydia
E. 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 we're. 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
lily had saved enough money to COM
mence newspaper advertising and
from that time the growth and sue
cess of the GenterpriSe were. assured,
until to-day Lydia e. Pinkham and
her Vegetable Compound have become
household words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
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 eff
fectually as she could have done it her
self.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was methodical in her work
and she was always careful to preserve
a record of every case that came to her
attention. The case Of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousancs-received
careful study, and the details, inclnd-
ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world over
and represent vast collaboration OF
information regarding the treatment
of woman's ills, which for authenticity
and accuracy can hardly be equaledj
any library in the world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
daughter-in-law, the present Mrs Pink
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 d.
rectiOn of the work when its Origfna-
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years she has continued 1t, and
nothing in the work shows when Lydia
E. Pinkham dropped her pen, and the
present Mrs Pinkham, now the mother
Of a large family, took it up. With
woman assistants, some as capable as
herself, the present Mrs Pinkham con-
tinues 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 ad'
vice is "YOurs for Health" freely Civ
en- If youenly write to ask for it.
Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound; made
from simple roots and here's: the one
great medicine for wOmen's ailments
and the fitting monument to the noble
woman whose name it bears.