Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

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maker: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company

Description: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:; A sure cure for prolapsis uteris or falling of the womb and all female weaknesses, including leucorrhoea, irregular and painful menstruation, inflammation and ulceration of the womb, flooding, diseases of the kidneys. For all weakness of the generative organs of either sex, it is second to no remedy that has ever been before the public, and for all diseases of the kidneys it is the greatest remedy in the world.
Location: Currently not on view

Date made: ca 1890; after 1873

ID Number: MG.293320.1330
catalog number: 293320.1330
accession number: 293320

Object Name: otc preparation
Other Terms: Drugs

Measurements: overall: 8 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 7/8 in; 21.59 cm x 9.525 cm x 4.7625 cm

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Lynn

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine; Health & Medicine; Menstruation: Symptom Relief; Balm of America

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Women's Health Products; Kidney & Urinary Drugs; Women's Health; Menstruation

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LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND

National Museum of American History

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