Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920s
name: label: maker
content: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
label: Description
content: Recommended as a vegetable tonic in conditions for which this preparation is adapted. In use for over 50 years.
label: Description
content: Dose: A tablespoonful every four hours through the day. Shake the bottle before using.
label: Description
content: Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was prescribed for “all those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population . . . and is particularly adapted to the Change of Life.”
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lynn
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Balm of America
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.1616
label: accession number
content: 293320
label: catalog number
content: 293320.1616
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: alcohol, 15% (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 21.59 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.445 cm