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Lydia Pinkham
American inventor (1819–1883)
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Biography of lydia pinkham
For the popular song by The Scaffold, see Lily the Pink (song).
Lydia E. Pinkham | |
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Pinkham, from a 1904 pamphlet | |
| Born | Lydia Estes February 9, 1819 (1819-02-09) Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | May 17, 1883(1883-05-17) (aged 64) |
Lydia Estes Pinkham (born Estes; February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an American inventor and marketer of a herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" for menstrual and menopausal problems, which medical experts dismissed as a quack remedy, but which is still on sale today in a modified form.
It was the aggressive marketing of Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that raised its profile, while also rallying the skeptics. Long, promotional copy would dramatize "women's weakness", "hysteria", and other themes commonly referenced at the time.
Pinkham urged women to write to her personally, and she would maintain the correspondence in order to expose the cu