Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound [inscribed]

Alternative title

Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier

Artist

J.H. Bufford & Co.

Date Created

[between 1884 and 1889?]

Language

English

Collection

Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Notes

Description

Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
One side of the card contains a color illustration of a wooden water mill on a riverbank in a snowy winter scene. The main colors are brown and white, with a greenish tint over all to suggest darkness. The windows of the mill reveal light from within the building. In the sky is the moon, obscured within a misty, cloudy sky.

Caption

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a positive cure for all those painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population. It will cure entirely the worst form of Female Complaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflammation, Ulceration, Falling and Displacements of the Womb, and the consequent Spinal Weakness, and is particularly adapted to the Change of Life. It will dissolve and expel Tumors from the uterus in an early stage of development. The tendency to cancerous humors there is checked very speedily by its use. It removes faintness, flatulency, destroys all craving for stimulants, and relieves weakness of the stomach. It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indigestion. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache is always permanently cured by its use. It will at all times and under all circumstances act in harmony with the laws that govern the female system. For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either sex, this Compound is unsurpassed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is prepared at Lynn, Mass. Price, $1.00; six bottles for $5.00. Sent by mail in the form of Pills, also in the form of Lozenges, on receipt of price, $1.00 per box, for either. Send for pamphlet. All letters of inquiry promptly answered. Address as above. No family should be without Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills. They cure Constipation, Biliousness, and torpidity of the Liver. 25 cents per box. Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. This preparation will eradicate every vestige of Humors from the Blood, and at the same time will give tone and strength to the system. It is far superior to any other known remedy for the cure of all diseases arising from impurities of the blood, such as Scrofula, Rheumatism, Cancerous Humors, Erysipelas, Canker, Salt Rheum, and Skin Diseases. Sold by all druggists.
Additional card text: Compliments of Allen T. Horn, Druggist, Lewisburg, Ohio [name and address rubber stamped on the card].

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card, color)

Dimensions

11.5 x 8.1 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Subject topic

Rivers
Hematologic Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Blood--Diseases--Treatment
Liver Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Menopause--Alternative treatment
Plant Preparations--Advertisements
Water mills
Menopause--Advertisements
Snow
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Liver--Diseases--Treatment
Patent medicines
Women--Diseases--Treatment
Dysmenorrhea--Treatment
Phytotherapy--Advertisements
Dysmenorrhea--drug therapy--Advertisements
Winter

Names

Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 1819-1883

Location

United States

Resource type

still image