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 on its packaging:; Recommended as a vegetable tonic in conditions for which this preparation is adapted. In use for over 50 years.; Dose: A tablespoonful every four hours through the day. Shake the bottle before using.; Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was prescribed for “all those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population . . . and is particularly adapted to the Change of Life.”

date made: ca 1920s

ID Number: MG.293320.1616
accession number: 293320
catalog number: 293320.1616

Object Name: otc preparation

Physical Description: glass (overall material); alcohol, 15% (drug active ingredients)
Measurements: overall: 8 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 21.59 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.445 cm

place made: United States: Massachusetts, Lynn

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine; Health & Medicine; American Enterprise; Balm of America
Exhibition: American Enterprise
Exhibition Location: National Museum of American History

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Patent Medicine

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nmah_651677

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LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND

National Museum of American History

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