Ah. Lydia Pinkham...it was created decades before. When I moved to my present neighborhood about 20 years ago, the locla pharmacy still sold it! And a "tonic" called Bull's Blood, which contained a very high percentage of alcohol.
Speaking as someone who is *much* closer to menopause than menarche, I'm neither panicking nor tortured with fear. But maybe I should stock up on Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetabel Compound just in case? *eg*
Have the night sweats hit you yet? When you wake up having lost at least a gallon of water by drenching your sheets and blankets, you'll be RUNNING to get the stuff.
Ugh. I used to have to sleep on layers of beach towels, and keep extra pajamas by the bed to change into halfway through the night. I never even knew my body had that much water in it!
In the earlier days, they sold this for pretty much all "women's troubles" -- menopause, pms, infertility, etc. The company would encourage women to write to Lydia and she'd reply to their letters ... but they had a big scandal when they were still doing it and Ladies Home Journal published a photo of her gravestone, proving that she had been dead for 20 years.
"We'll drink a drink a drink To lily the pink the pink the pink The saviour of our human race For she invented, medicinal compound Most efficacious in every case"
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Date: 2012-05-01 12:20 am (UTC)Ugh. I used to have to sleep on layers of beach towels, and keep extra pajamas by the bed to change into halfway through the night. I never even knew my body had that much water in it!
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Date: 2012-05-01 12:16 am (UTC)LOL!
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Date: 2012-04-30 11:56 am (UTC)"We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of our human race
For she invented, medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case"