Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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Usage conditions apply
- 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.”
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- date made
- ca 1920s
- maker
- Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Lynn
- 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
- ID Number
- MG.293320.1616
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1616
- subject
- Patent Medicine
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- 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
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