Book Lydia pinkham herbal tablet
Lots of footnotes and references for those who want to do further research Interesting take indicates Pinkham may have been the first big scam artist 146
Lydia Pinkham was one of the 19 th century s most remarkable businesswomen her influence spreading beyond the late 1800s and her native New England A champion of equal rights for women and blacks at a time when such causes lacked widespread support Pinkham was ahead of her time on other issues Chief among them was the well being of women struggling with serious health issues related to their menstrual cycles and other so called women weaknesses But as the teetotaling Pinkham and her namesake company soared to entrepreneurial heights by selling her patient relief in the guise of an alcohol laced potion known as the Vegetable Compound generations that followed have been left to Was she worthy of her female customers trust or just an opportunist In Lydia The Face That Launched a Thousand Ads historian Sammy R Danna offers the latest book length biography that explores all sides of the Lydia Pinkham phenomena Danna illustrates how remarkable an American historical figure she was who with associates masterfully used and reinvented the marketing tools of her day while battling the misogyny of the medical establishment But Danna also asks whether she was just a grandmotherly version of the pitchmen who roamed from town to town with their snake oil elixirs Students and scholars in the fields of women s studies American culture and the histories of medicine advertising and business will see Lydia Pinkham in a new light Lydia Pinkham The Face That Launched a Thousand Ads.
