The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-30
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAN
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. Tb.-
argued that the medicine which ~
so good for their woman friends aSS
neighbors was equally good for ~.
women Of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money -,
little credit. Their first laborot ~nu
was the kitchen, where roots ana
herbs were STEPPED on the storo
gradually filing a gross Of bottlos.'
Then came the question Of saII;Ua
it, for always before they had giv.Ss
it away freely. They hired a ;ob
printer to run off some pamrbi,,.
setting forth the merits of the ma:
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkbam,,
Vegetable Compound, and these w.
distributed by the Pinkham sons N
Boston, New York, and BROOKLYN,
The wonderful curative properties 81
the medicine were, TO a great extent
self-advertising, for whoever used !,
recommended it to others and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam.
fly had saved enough money 10 com.
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time thesgrowth and success o.
the enterprise were assured, until 70.
day Lydia E. Pinkham and her vece.
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 no,
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward wears
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she could have done il
herself.
During her long and eventful expe.
rience she was ever methodical 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 thousands-received
careful study, and the details, incud.
ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since. ars
available to sick women the world
over, and represent o vast collabora.
ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equsled in any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham 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 vas:
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when its 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 heI
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham
now the mother of large family. took
it up. With women assistants, some as
capable as herself, the present Mrs.
Pinkham continues this greatwork, and
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 "Yours for Health
freely given if you only write to ash
for It.
Such is the history Of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound made
from simple roots and herbs; the ono
great medicine for women's ailmcnts,
and the fitting monument to The noble
woman whose name it bears.