Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-12
WHO.SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM
And a 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.

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 40 money, and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
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 givcn
it away freely. They hired a job
printer to run off some pamphlets
cine, now called Lydia e. Pinkham'~
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,
seit-advertising, for whoever used 1t
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam
ily had saved enough money to COM
mence newspape advertising and from
that time the growth and success OF
the enterprise were assured, until to-
dav lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege-
cable Compound have become house
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in it's manufacture.
Lydia e. Pinkham herself III 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.
Daring her long and cventful expe-
rience she was ever ethodlca IN her
work and she was always careful toPre-
serve 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 Observation-Disclosures
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. are
= available to sick women the world
: over, and represent a vast bora
, ton 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 F. Pinkham worked hel
daughter in : law, the present Mrs
L lllINlllul. ollS W ~ 'ti 49,
in all her hard-won knowledge, ant
. for years she assisted her in her vas
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell thu
4 direction of the work when its origina
4 tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years she has continued it, al
. nothing in the work shows when tn
first Lydia E. Pinllham dropped he
l. pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham
d now the mother of a large family, tool
it up. With M assistants, some a
k capable as herself, the present Mrs
20 Pinkham continues this great work, an
probably from the Office of no othe
IS person have so many women been &C
vised how to regain health. Sick We
a. men, this advice is ''Yours for Health
P freely given if you only write to as
&c for it.
. Such is the history of Lydia e. Pink
IS hams Vegetable Compound mad
n from simple roots and herbs; the on
great medicine for women's ailment:
r, and the fitting monument to the mob
to woman whose name it bears.