The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-01
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. plNKtlAM
And True Story Of How the Vegetable Compound
Had It's Birth and How the "Panc Of 49, Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

restore tho family fortune. They
argued that tho medicine which was
so good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women Of the whole world.
The Pinkha,ns had no money, and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the Kitchen, where roots ind
herbs were stepped on the stove,
gradually filling u gross OF bottles.
then came the question of selling
| it, for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired q job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia e. Pinkhaln's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkhaln sons in
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn
The wonderful curative properties Of
the medicine were, TO u great extent,
self-advertising, for whoever used it
recommended 1t to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by comb ined efforts the FAM
lily had saved enough money 70 COM
mence newspaper advert Using and from
that time the growth and success OF
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia E. Pinkhnm and her Vege.
table Compound have become house
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in it's manufacturer. II, 4.
Lydia e. PinkhamS 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-
rieuce she was ever mcthodical in her
work and she was alwayscarefulto pre-
serve nrecord of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there We're thousands-received
careful study, and the details, includ-
tug 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 cola bora
ton Of infor1na ton regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be cqualed in any library in the
world.
With Lydia. e. Pinkhnm worked her.
daughter in law, the present Mrs.
Pinkham. She was carefully instructed
in all her hnrd-won knowledge, and
for years she assisted heren her vast
correspondence
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when it's origina-
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years she has continued it, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia Il. Pinkham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham,
now the mother Of a large family, took
itup With women assistants, some as
capable MS herself, the present Mrs
Pinkham continues this greatwork, land
probably from the office Of no other
person have so many women been adj
vised how to regain health. Sick wo.
men, this advice is "Y ours for Health
freely given if you only. write to asls
for it.
Such is the history of Lydia r. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound made
from simple roots and herbs; the ono
great medicine for womcn's ailments,
and the fitting monument to the noble
woman whose lame it bears.