LYDIA PINKHAM
1819–1883
American Lydia Pinkham was best known for her “women’s tonic,” which went from a home-brewed remedy to being manufactured in a commercial laboratory as part of her highly successful business.
Born Lydia Estes in Lynn, Massachusetts, Pinkham grew up in a Quaker family. She married Isaac Pinkham in 1843 and, while raising their family, made many home remedies containing herbs and roots, which she shared with her neighbors. These would form the basis of her later fortune. In 1873, after a financial crisis ruined her husband, Pinkham decided to sell her tonics commercially. Her “vegetable ...
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