The Penn's Grove record., 1906-01-12
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. pNKHAM
And a 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.

restore 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 mt and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were 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 nicely. They hired a job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, 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 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
lily had saved enough money to COM
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege-
table Compound have become house.
hold words eveIy-hers, and many
toms ct roota and hen = arc a&e3 aanu-
ally n 'fs nGsrnfR1surc.
Lydia L. pin1chaGu herself dId not
I've to see the great success OF this
work. She passed 10 her reward a
ago, but not till she had crowded
means lCs continuing her work as
effectively as she could have Done it
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful to pre-
serve a record of every case that came to
her attention. The case Of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
ana there were thousands-recelved
careful stady, ana the details, includ-
ing syn CONS, treatment and results
were recof@ for future reference, and
to-day these secords, together with
hundreds Of tGoasands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent 8 vas coilaboga.
ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ilH whit for
~sDthenticity and accuracy can hardly
be eQusied in any lib~ary IA the
world.
With Lydia e. Pinkhan worked her
daughter in law, the present. Mrs.
Pinkhau She was carefully instructed
ia all her hard-won knowledge, and
lor yesrs she assisted her Ia her vast
correspondence.
10 her hands 1eturally fell the
direction Of the work when itg Origins.
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
i've years she has continued It, ond
nothing in the work shows when the
.rsS Lydia 4. Pinknarn dropped her
per, and the present Mrs, Ptnkham,
now the mother Of e large family. took
Il up. With woman as5istants, sone as
capable al herself, tie present Mrs
Pinkham continues this great work, and
probably from the Office Of no othe.
person hevs so many ONE been ad-
vise6 how to regain health. Sick wo.
men, this advice Is "Yours for health
freely given II you only write 10 ask
Tor 10,
such is The history Of Lydia z. Pink
a4nfs Vegetable Compound made
trom staple roots and herbs the one
great medicine for vomen's ailments.
and tie fitting monument to the mob,
4 woman whose name 10 bears.