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[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, vol XIL July to December 1882. New York. Inside back cover, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound".

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[surelle.livejournal.com]

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Wow. How did you happen across that?

[surelle.livejournal.com]

My husband likes to sing this song - which I think he learned through listening to the Irish Rovers!

[planet-x-zero.livejournal.com]

Most likely a blend of opium and cocaine.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Pinkham

Just alcohol :)

[planet-x-zero.livejournal.com]

Why I dare say, that's no kind of cure. It'll be Godfrey's Cordial for me. Bully!

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

I read the ingredients, and it sounds like Vitameatavegamin.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Exactly what we thought :)

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I suspect it was the real-life inspiration.

[misstia]

i'm surprised they used the word menstruation then....i mean, you weren't suppose to talk about those things so openly!! "flooding" ?!

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Lydia P was actually very progressive, by our standards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Pinkham

At the time she was mostly scorned by "serious people" aka men.

[misstia]

Wow, thanks for that link, she really was! Of course she was scorned by mostly serious people men! Can't have women folk doing anything like that!

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

When I first met Mary, her best friend's mother swore by this stuff. For all I know, they're still selling it, next to High John the Conqueror Root...