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	Lydia Pinkham - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pinkham, Lydia E(stes) (1819–1893), American entrepreneur and patent-medicine proprietor who claimed she could cure any female complaint.
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		Skoblikova, Lydia, born in 1939, Russian speed skater, winner of six gold medals at two Olympic Games, including all four gold medals for individual...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Lydia_Pinkham.html (81 words)

	Lydia Pinkham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lydia's company continued increasing profit margins fifty years after her death but eventually the advent of the FDA curtailed the company's activities.
		Although Pinkham's motives were partly self-serving, feminists admire her for distributing information on menstruation and the "facts of life," and consider her to be a crusader for women's health issues in a day when women were poorly served by the medical establishment.
		Lydia and her "medicinal compound" are memorialized in the folk songs "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham," and "Lily the Pink".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lydia_Pinkham (798 words)

	Pinkham, Lydia Estes
		The Panic of 1873 left the family in financial straits, and it was at the suggestion of one of her sons that she thought to exploit her local reputation for an herbal medicine she had been concocting for years.
		Pinkham wrote handbills for her sons to distribute with slogans like, "Only a woman can understand a woman's ills." It was her son Daniel who, in 1879, had the idea of using his mother's picture in newspaper advertisements to emphasize the homemade quality of the compound.
		Pinkham established a Department of Advice with an all-female staff to respond to the hundred letters a day that she reported receiving.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Pinkham_Lydia_Estes.html (481 words)

	Lydia Pinkham Summary
		Lydia Estes Pinkham, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1819, was the tenth of twelve children of William and Rebecca Estes, radical Quakers.
		Although Pinkham's motives were partly self-serving, feminists admire her for distributing information on menstruation and the "facts of life," and consider her to be a crusader for women's health issues in a day when women were poorly served by the medical establishment.
		Lydia and her "medicinal compound" are memorialized in the folk songs "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham," and "Lily the Pink".
	www.bookrags.com /Lydia_Pinkham (2764 words)

	BLACK COHOSH AND LYDIA PINKHAM
		Lydia Estes was born in 1819 in Lynn, Massachusetts.
		Pinkham had been in the temperance movement, she had studied human nature, and always put alcohol in her herbal product "to act as [a] solvent and preservative," She knew that alcohol temporarily solves some problems.
		Lydia Pinkham never saw the full effect of her empire since she died in 1883, but her Vegetable Compound made her family a fortune, grossing $300, 000 annually by her death and peaking in 1925 at $3.8 million per year.
	www.drmirkin.com /women/9776.html (427 words)

	Vigo County Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lydia Estes grew up in a well -too-do Quaker family in the 19th century, a family in which both girls and boys were encouraged to express themselves.
		Lydia brewed the concoction of herbs in her home, found it to be beneficial and began to share it with her neighbors.
		Lydia was receiving about 150 letters per day due to the fact that her remedy ads encouraged women to write for advice -- which she dispensed with common sense.
	web.indstate.edu /community/vchs/ht/ht102884.htm (450 words)

	Special Collections Digital Library - Patent Medicine Collection
		Pinkham for advice." The fact that Lydia Pinkham had died in 1883 didn't deter the company from continuing to play on her name and image.
		Pinkham" ruse was first given wide public exposure in 1905 when the muckraking Ladies' Home Journal published a photograph of Lydia Pinkham's tombstone, and speculated on the quality of medical advice being dispensed by a woman who had been dead for 22 years.
		The red-faced company asserted that it hadn't meant to imply that Lydia Pinkham could be written to--it was her daughter-in-law, Jennie Pinkham, who answered the letters.
	www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /biolib/hc/nostrums/pinkham.html (378 words)

	Kate Warne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lydia gave birth to 5 children between 1844 and 1857, losing one son in 1847 to cholera.
		Lydia viewed the alcohol in her medicine as therapeutically valuable and necessary for preserving the compound.
		Lydia died a wealthy woman at the age of 64.
	www.wwfrontier.nu /lydia.html (328 words)

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		She invented “Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound”, a health drink that was sold in bottles (similar to this one) and was one of the first women to run a successful business in the 1800's.
		Pinkham had been in the temperance movement, as a student of phrenology she had studied human nature, and almost 20% of her concoction was alcohol, which she said acted "as [a] solvent and preservative," certainly solving many a problem and preserving not a few of her fellow citizens.
		Pinkham was involved in many activities, but these lines from a song mention her most famous one: So we'll sing of Lydia Pinkham, Savior of the human race.
	www.uure.com /files/Lesson__3_You_.doc (1313 words)

	Health Hints (Lydia Pinkham Booklet) - NO AUTHOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Every time we hear Lydia Pinkham's name we're reminded of the old song "We'll drink a drink, a drink, to Lily the pink, the pink, the pink, the saviour of the human race.
		She invented medicinal compound, efficacious in every case!" As everyone now knows, the basis of Lydia's elixir was good old grain alcohol, but here her company expounds on health tips, some of which actually stand the test of time.
		Lydia's name and likeness may be on the cover, but since she died in 1883, it's unlikely she had much to do with the production of this particular booklet, though it probably does continue her philosophy.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/gar/9466.shtml (239 words)

	Lydia Pinkham's Tonic for Conceiving a Girl
		Lydia Pinkham's Herbal Compound was originally the famous Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a patent medicine tonic used to treat "female complaints" and infertility in the Victorian age.
		Lydia Pinkham's tonic made her rich and famous, and her story is quite interesting.
		The idea that Lydia Pinkham's (LP) compound might help to conceive a girl came from an alert board member who noted two girl pregnancies where the mothers were using LP, and investigated to find a total of 8 pregnancies where the mother was taking LP.
	www.in-gender.com /Gender-Selection/Lydia-Pinkham (495 words)

	Daniel Pinkham: Composer
		Pinkham recalls his father's view that wrestling and exposure to Old Testament narratives were the most meaningful parts of an Andover education; for Daniel however, it was to be music, though not without a similar exposure to the cadences of Scripture.
		About this time, however, Pinkham was experiencing a gradual shift in his interests in the direction of Renaissance music, and the Brink-Pinkham duo finally curtailed its activities after Brink developed a hand affliction ("trigger finger") which necessitated refingering of the violinist's music, with a corresponding loss of tone and intonation.
		The Motets are prime Pinkham and a catalog of his virtues as a composer: literary discrimination in the choice of texts, imagination, and utter professionalism in handling them musically, attractive melody, clear textures, grateful vocal lines, a sweet sincerity, and a true depth of feeling.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/pinkham.html (2441 words)

	Open Collections Program: Women Working: Lydia Estes Pinkham
		By the time of Lydia's death in 1883, her famous Vegetable Compound was grossing $300,000 annually, and in 1925 annual profits peaked at $3.8 million.
		The success of the Vegetable Compound was due to Lydia's wise decision to protect her herbal remedy by filing a patent with the U.S. Patent Office in 1876, which ensured Pinkham family control over the herbal remedy for the next fifty years.
		In the process, Lydia Pinkham changed the lives of thousands of American women by drawing attention to serious female medical issues that were being neglected by mainstream medicine.
	ocp.hul.harvard.edu /ww/people_pinkham.html (449 words)

	Enterprising Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A major aspect of Pinkham's business was providing women healthful advice in an age when gynecological ills were little understood.
		Pinkham marketed medicinal potions to women in an era when the medical establishment understood little of women's illnesses.
		Taking women's gynecological problems as her province, in an age when these topics were barely whispered, Pinkham brewed and bottled the herbal remedy in her kitchen.
	www.enterprisingwomenexhibit.org /builder/pinkham.html (481 words)

	Women's History Month - Lydia Estes Pinkham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lydia wrote handbills for her sons to distribute with slogans like, "Only a woman can understand a woman's ills." The "female complaint" nostrum was widely advertised in the backs of newspapers and women's magazines.
		Lydia established an all-female staff to respond to the hundred letters a day that she reported receiving.
		Pinkham for advice." The fact that Lydia was dead didn't deter the company from continuing to play on her name and image.
	www.onlinewbc.gov /whm_mkglp.html (785 words)

	Lydia Estes Pinkham Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		As her family was struggling to make ends meet, a few women stopped by the kitchen of Lydia Pinkham (1819-1883) and offered to pay cash for some of her homemade herbal medicine.
		Lydia would attempt to communicate with departed loved ones during her lifetime.
		Pinkham was one of the first women to write the advertising copy for a product.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/lydia-estes-pinkham (1823 words)

	So, Unafraid, He Faced The Setting Sun: Newspaper Ads From The Golden Age of Advertising
		Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is, without question, the most well-known of the various patent medicines in existence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819-1883) was a schoolteacher who belonged to a prominent New England family and was a member of the Female Anti-Slavery Society.
		Lydia Pinkham and her vegetable compound were so widely known that there were even songs that mocked them both.
	www.davetill.com /ads1920s/20_pinkham.htm (665 words)

	Business Ownership
		Beginning in 1875, Pinkham and her family advertised the product as a curative for a variety of "female complaints," establishing a company that would soon be a phenomenon in the market for patent medicine.
		Although Pinkham was herself a strong supporter of the temperance movement, her product contained a high percentage of alcohol, which she did approve of for medicinal purposes.
		Although Lydia was the original manufacturer of her remedy and the author of early advertising copy, the company was run by her sons.
	www.library.hbs.edu /hc/wes/collections/women_finance_investment/business_ownership (790 words)

	Good Old Days Online - Stories - Lydia Pinkham's Fabulous Compound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It didn't matter that her fabled "medicine" contained no vegetables and wasn't a compound; Lydia Pinkham is deemed by Radcliffe as a woman who has done much for womanhood by developing and marketing her fabulous concoction.
		Lydia was an influential woman in Lynn, Mass., involving herself in the spiritualist world and civil rights activities.
		Lydia sold her patent medicine well into the 20th century and, with the respectful archiving of her papers by Radcliffe, her immortality is assured.
	www.goodolddaysonline.com /pages/stories/archive_stories/fabulous_compound.html (702 words)

	Vigo County Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lydia’s cure-all popular Rx The public’s faith in orthodox medicine was justifiably skittish in the 19th century.
		Lydia Estes was born in 1819 in Lynn, Mass., to Quaker parents.
		Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was “A medicine for woman.
	web.indstate.edu /community/vchs/ht/ht102388.htm (441 words)

	Hot flashes, facial flushing, facial blushing, pre menstrual syndrome treatment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Discover Lydia Pinkham Herbal Compound or Tablets for nutritional support during menstruation or menopause.
		Lydia Pinkham is the world’s most time-proven indication for women.
		The remedy was formulated specifically for women’s problems by a knowledgeable, caring woman, Lydia Pinkham.
	www.excessivesweating-sweatypalms-hyperhidrosis-antiperspirant.com /LydiaPynkham/LydiaPynkham.htm (213 words)

	Picture of the Day: June 30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lydia Estes Pinkham was in her mid-fifties when economic hardship forced her and her family to begin selling bottles of a homemade health remedy.
		Pinkham's tonic, formulated from herbs and 20% alcohol as a "solvent and preservative," was first sold in 1875 as a cure for "female complaints." Business grew as the family aggressively marketed their product with trade cards, like this one, which linked Pinkham's Compound with the patriotism and progress represented by the Brooklyn Bridge.
		Lydia Pinkham was probably the best-known woman in America at the time.
	www.thehistorynet.com /pod/pod0630 (144 words)

	TDF Metal Finishing, Inc.
		One of the first female entrepreneurs, Lydia Pinkham began making her vegetable compound in her kitchen for the private use of her friends.
		After her husband's business failed in the panic of 1873, she and her sons began marketing the tonic selling it as a cure for "female complaints." Made from a variety of roots and herbs in a suspension of 19% alcohol, the vegetable compound was sold worldwide and Mrs.
		The Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn continued to produce Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound until the company was sold in 1968.
	www.tdfmetalfinishing.com /history.asp (173 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lydia, a member of the “Eclectic Movement,” believed in maintaining and sustaining good health through the use of herbs and a good diet.
		During this time, she made her concoction, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, from a recipe that was given to her by a debtor of her husband.
		Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was considered a cure all for anything that ails the female body, especially menstrual discomforts.
	scied.gsu.edu /Hanna/rx/lydia.doc (797 words)

	Lydia Pinkham's Story
		Lydia began selling her home-brewed herbal remedy to make ends meet after her wealthy husband went bankrupt, and developed a patent medicine empire.
		Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Tonic was a popular remedy for "female complaints" and the elixer was promised to cure every womanly ailment from menstrual discomfort to infertility to the dreaded prolapses uteri.
		Today, Lydia Pinkham's herbal compound is again available, although the extravagant promises have been reduced the the modest claim that it will "make you feel better" during menstruation and menopause because it offers "nutritional support".
	www.in-gender.com /gender-selection/Lydia-Pinkham/LydiaPinkham_Story.aspx (490 words)

	Lydia Pinkham Building, Lynn - Reviews of Lydia Pinkham Building - IgoUgo
		Lydia must have rolled over in her grave when, in 1925, her surviving son and daughter realized $3 million in revenues.
		Lydia, who was a good Quaker woman with ties to the Womanâ€™s Christian Temperance Movement, saw no ethical problems with the medicinal use of alcohol and claimed itâ€™s purpose was as a solvent and preservative.
		The Lydia Pinkham Building is the factory her Vegetable Compound built in the late 1800's.
	www.igougo.com /travelcontent/journalEntryActivity.aspx?EntryID=8812 (508 words)

	Lydia Pinkham 'A Baby in Every Bottle
		Nevertheless, Lydia (1819-1883) the 10th child of Rebecca and William Estes of Salem, Massachusetts was without a doubt the dominant woman of her times.
		Its not all that easy since Pinkham, the woman, together with her famous medicines, obviously overshadows the fact that all of her herbal brews were delivered to the public in bottles which since the beginning, looked pretty much the same.
		“Lydia Pinkham Is Her Name,” a biography by Jean Burton published in 1949 is an excellent piece of research on the stately life and trails of a truly great dame.
	www.glswrk-auction.com /025.htm (2245 words)

	LYDIA PINKHAM HERBAL COMPOUND LIQUID 8OZ - 89730
		Discover Lydia Pinkham Herbal Compound Liquid or Tablets for nutritional support for women during all stages of life from menstruation through menopause.
		Lydia Pinkham is the worlds most time-proven indication for women.
		Lydia Pinkham is available in our health care store in both liquid form (the herbal compound) and as tablets.
	www.anyotc.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=6106 (276 words)

	Lydia E. Pinkham - Yesterday and Today
		Lydia Pinkham was the Ann Landers and Dr. Ruth of the 1800's.
		Lydia's Secret contains Black cohosh in the amount recommended by the German Commission E, which has recognized Black cohosh for its ability to help support and maintain good health for women during menstruation.
		Lydia E. Pinkham® and Lydia's Secret are trademarks of NUMARK Laboratories, Inc.
	www.lydiapinkham.org /story.html (381 words)

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