Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Title
- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- Advertisement for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound depicting a little girl in a blue dress sitting in a v-shaped chair. She has a small basket on her right arm and is holding a cat. The reverse of the card states that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a "cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common in our best female population." It can be used for bloating, headache, sleeplessness, depression, indigestion, backache; and also for for kidney complaints of either sex. The price for pills is $1.00 per bottle or $5.00 for six bottles. Lozenges are $1.00 per box. Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills cure constipation and liver problems; and Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier is a remedy for scrofula, rheumatism, erysipelas, and skin diseases.
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 7cm x 10cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.54.09
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Children in advertising
- Scrofula
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Menstruation
- Constipation/drug therapy
- Dyspepsia/drug therapy
- Erysipelas/drug therapy
- Headache/drug therapy
- Kidney Diseases/drug therapy
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Rheumatic Diseases/drug therapy
- Skin Diseases/drug therapy
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Rights
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards
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