The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PrNKHAM
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.

restore the family fortune. They argued that the medicine which was so good for their woman friends and nei9hbors 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 herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottles. Then came the question of selling it. for always before they had given lit away freely. They hired a job printer to run of some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the redi- cine. now called Lydia E. Pinlham's Vegetable Compound, and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
 The wonderfulcurativ properties of the medicine were, to Q 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 to- day Lydia E Pinkham and her Vege- table Compound have become house.
 hold words everywhere, and many | tons of roots and herbs are used annu. ally in its manufacture. Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not i 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 is herself.
 During her long and eventful expe- rieuce she was ever methodical In her work and she was always careful to pre-. serve a record of every case thatcame to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice-- and there were thousands-received careful study, and the details, includ- | ing svmptolns. 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 collabora-
 tion of information regarding the | treatment of woman's ills. which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly
 be equaled in any library Tn tho world.
 With Lydia B. Pinkham worked her
 daughter in law. the present Mrs.
 Pinkhau. She was carefully instructed
 in all her hard-won knowledge, and
 for years she assisted her in her vast
 correspondence.
 To her hands naturally fell t.e 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 E. Pinkham dropped her
 pen, and the present Mrs. Pinlham, now the mother of large family, took it up With women assistants, 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 ad.
 vised how to regain health. Sick wo.
 men, this advice is Yours for Health"
 freely given if you only write to ass for it.
 Such is the history of Lydia P. Pink
 hams Vegetable Compound made
 from simple roots and herbs the one great medicine for women's ailments,
 and the fitting monument to the noble Il woman whose name it bears.