Macon beacon., 1906-04-07
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKiAM
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had It's Birth and How the "Panic of '73" caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores

/ restore the family fortune. Ihey
argued that the medicine which was
so GOOD for their woman friends ana
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinlzhams had no money, 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
il away freely. They hired o job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the mcdi-
cine, now called Lydia 4. finkham
| 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 n great extent,
| self-adyertising, for whoever used II
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877. by combined efforts the fam
Iilv had saved enough money to com
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
dav lydia L. Pinkham and her Nege-
table Compound have become house
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in its manufacture.
lydia Z. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
aro, 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-
ricuce she was ever methodical in her
work and She was always careful topre-
serve arecord of every case that came to
her attention. The ease OF every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-received
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 vast collabora-
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 z. Pinl5ham worked her
daughter in law, the present Mrs.
Pinkham. 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 the
4 direction of the work when its origina-
4 tor passed away. For nearly twenty
o. five years she has continued it, and
o nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia Il. Pinkham dropped her
: pen, and the present Mrs, Pinkham
" now the mother of n large family, took
it up Withwomen assistants, some a:
k capable as herself, the present Mrs
10 Pmkham continues this greatwork ,anC
IS probably from the office of no other
SIS person have so many women been ad
n yiscd how to regain health. Sick wO
l. men, this advice is "Yours for Health
D. freely given if you only write to asl
e for it.
Such is the history of Lydia L. Pink
S hams Vegetable Compound mad
n from simple roots and herbs; the on
great medicine for womens ailments
r, and the fitting monument to the nobl
to woman whose name it bears.