Lydia Pinkham

Lydia Pinkham

Lydia Estes Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" meant to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains.

Read more about Lydia Pinkham:  Biography, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, The Original Product and Its Modern Descendants, Drinking Songs

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