Lydia Pinkham’s famous compound was known to me made up of the unicorn root, life root, black cohash, pleurisy root and fenugreeks, suspended in 18% alcohol. While there are skeptics who considered the Lydia Pinkham vegetable compound as a ‘quack’ medicine that’s not the case, in fact some of these ingredients are still used today by alternative, naturopathic and traditional Chinese medicines to treat health problems today. Around 1962 with sales on the decline the parent company in Massachusetts decided to close the Canadian branch in Cobourg Ontario. ( Log Out /  Perhaps the greatest testament to Pinkham’s tonic is that it is still sold today (minus the alcohol content). Any resemblance to a boring history class is purely coincidental! Was Lydia Pinkham a purveyor of snake oil or of medicine? Episode 126: Lydia Pinkham 2019 Posted 18 May 2019 by The History Chicks Women’s health is in the news these days but this is hardly a 20teens issue, we talk about it all the time when we hop in our WayBack machine. The fortunes of the Pinkham family had long been patchy, but they now entered on hard times. The Lydia Pinkham business manufactured palliatives for various ills, especially female complaints. We’ve refreshed the 2015 audio and thought it was a good time for us all to realize that everything old is new again. Several thousand years of history.

At about this time the Lydia Estes Pinkham Company closed in the U.S. and Cooper Laboratories of Pleasantville California obtained the rights and continued producing the Pinkham products into the first decade of the 21 century. Lydia Pinkham lived from 1819-1883 inwards Lynn, MA. Isaac Pinkham had begun as a shoemaker (the couple lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, shoe making capital of the United States) but left the industry to follow a number of money-making schemes, none of them successful. For many women, Lydia’s pamphlets provided the first real information they received on issues as mundane as menstrual cramps and menopausal changes — and just about everything that can occur in between, from spotting to pregnancy to fallen wombs, and including infertility, constipation, hot flashes, depression, miscarriage, piles, and sexually transmitted diseases. We’ll be doing a live show on Friday, May 31 and other events throughout the weekend! Women’s health is in the news these days but this is hardly a 20teens issue, we talk about it all the time when we hop in our WayBack machine. ( Log Out / 

She had fun with her advertising (she knew a baby couldn’t really arrive through a bottle — a man had a role as well) but she took her pamphlets very, very seriously, researching the topics that female customers brought to her in the hundreds of thousands of letters she received, and then writing about those issues in clear and simple language. Lydia Pinkham was a rebel in her own time and her own way, a woman who sought to help other women by sharing information about physical and mental health, and on the side, sell a bit of feel-good tonic along the way. Overwhelming Proof that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Succeeds. To reach all interested communities, Lydia had the labels on her bottles and all the pamphlets produced in English, Spanish, and French. The business started when Massachusetts born Lydia Estes Pinkham, with her sons in 1875 began selling her home brewed patent medicine known as Lydia Estes Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Thanks to our sponsors for their support, and thanks to you who support our sponsors! Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Habia. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. For 10% off your ticket visit podx.com/CHICKS, Your email address will not be published.Required fields are marked *.

Most certainly, Lydia’s informative pamphlets paved the way for a greater understanding of female health issues and improved treatment. Try ZipRecuiter for free and simplify YOUR hiring search. Lydia Pinkham : biography February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883 Isaac Pinkham was financially ruined in the Panic of 1873; he narrowly escaped arrest for debt, and his health was permanently broken under the associated stress.

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. TUMORS CONQUERED. Surprisingly another Cobourg company, Bird Archer purchased the Lydia Pinkham rights and continued to manufacture the products for the Canadian market. The Women’s Temperance Movement protested the level of alcohol present in the compound (18–20%) and the company was accused of manufacturing false testimonials to boost sales (such claims were successfully defended against and were withdrawn). Given the high levels of alcohol in the original Vegetable Compound, an argument could be made that Lydia supplied spirits, not medicine.

Capterra.com/CHICKS. Lydia’s own marriage was a robust and mutually-satisfying partnership, but it had its challenges.

Mass marketed from 1876, the Lydia Estes Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound eventually went to become one of the best known patent medicines of the century. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was a huge success, both commercially and in terms of actually helping people. Siempre tenia una inflamación pelvica o sino eran los quistes en los ovarios. But there were challenges to the success of The Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company. Capitalizing on the correspondence and recognizing women’s unmet need for useful advice on their health and sexuality, Lydia began writing dense pamphlets that were one-part advertisement for her product and two-parts sex education. It was here that the Lydia Pinkham Company manufactured their products for almost fifty years. For the next thirty years a number of tenants occupied the Cobourg Pinkham building, the Ranger well remembers the Triangle Plumbing and the Nyberg Plumbing Companies operating there.

Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  This was a most unusual partner for Pinkham products as the Bird Archer plant’s primary business was the manufacture of water treatment chemicals but production continued until 1977. Pinkham was hugely successful, not only because of the science behind her tonic but because her promotional materials gave frank and accurate advice to women seeking help with their bodies, their sex lives, and their husbands. Now destitute, the idea of a family business was formed. Half the population. Change ), Exploring the Walking Trails and History of South – Central Ontario, Canada, Follow 2 Old Guys Walking on WordPress.com, The Haliburton County Rail Trail (Kinmount) Geeza Rd to Howland Review, How to Write a WordPress Posting with the Classic Editor (Origin theme), The Knoxville Rd / 6th Line (Port Hope) Trail Review. Episode 17: Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, Episode 21:Tudor Grandmothers, Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth Woodville, Episode 24: Last Four Wives of Henry VIII, Episode 23A: Beckett and Susan’s Adventures in Wonderland and What They Found There, Episode 49: The Women of Gone With The Wind, Episode 53: Marie Antoinette Reboot, Part One, Episode 54: Marie Antoinette Reboot, Part Two, Episode 60: Josephine Cochrane, Hedy Lamarr, Melitta Bentz, Mary Phelps Jacobs, Episode 61: Catherine the Great, Part One, Episode 62: A Conversation with Carol Wallace, Episode 71: Schuyler Sisters with Amanda Vaill, Episode 86: Eleanor of Aquitaine Part One, Episode 87: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Part Two, Episode 101: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Part One, Episode 102: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Part Two, Episode 105: Dowager Empress Cixi of China, Episode 106: Beatrix Potter Revisited and Refreshed, Episode 111: Clara Barton Revisited and Refreshed, Episode 115: Belle Starr and Calamity Jane, Episode 123: Annie Londonderry (Kopchovsky), Episode 132: Isabella of Castile, Part One, Episode 133: Isabella of Castile, Part Two, Episode 134: Gilded Age Servants and Heiresses, Episode 138: Sarah Winchester and the Mystery House, Episode 142: Louisa May Alcott, Revisited, Episode 144: Mary Church Terrell Part One, Episode 145: Not Mary Church Terrell, but Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Episode 146: Mary Church Terrell, Part Two, Episode 148: Annie Malone and Madam C.J.