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Management number | 3306289 | Release Date | 2025/08/12 | List Price | $58.80 | Model Number | 3306289 | ||
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Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Collectible Cookbook Quackery MedicinePractical Cooking Recipes together with health suggestions concerning the use of:Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable CompoundAnd other Pinkham medicinesPublished by The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine CoLynn MassachusettsPaperback, 32 pages, illustrated. Not dated, circa late 1800's.Condition; Good with discoloration to pages and chipping to the stapled spine. Book contains recipes and testimonials to using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.Hard to find publication. Please see photos.Of all the patent medicines of the 19th century, Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, made of alcohol and herbs, was perhaps the best known.Pinkham and her "Medicinal Compound" for feminine disorders became the subject of a bawdy drinking song, of which a sanitized version became a number one hit by The Scaffold in the United Kingdom.Aimed at relieving menstrual and menopausal symptoms, its success was due as much to Mrs. Pinkham’s shrewd marketing as it was to its effectiveness.Advertisements for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound included popular myths of women's health, problematizing "women's weakness" of emotionality and "hysteria". Some of the original product advertised such notions as encouraging sexual activity with husbands, encouraging reproduction, and "restoring women's pep" so that they might prove better wives and mothers.
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