Researching Lydia Pinkham
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 126 people with the Pinkham surname? In that year Pinkham was ranked number 3453 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Lydia means "form Lydia, beauty" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Lydia Pinkham on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Lydia Pinkham and the Pinkham Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 174 people with the Pinkham surname in the UK? Pinkham is now ranked number 3879 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Pinkham surname in the USA? Pinkham is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Lydia Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Lydia Estes Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an American inventor and marketer of an herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" for menstrual and menopausal problems, which medical experts dismissed as a quack remedy, but which is still on sale today in a modified form. It was the aggressive marketing of Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that raised its profile, while also rallying the skeptics. Long, promotional copy would dramatise "women's weakness", "hysteria" and other themes commonly referenced at the time. Pinkham urged women to write to her personally, and she would maintain the correspondence in order to expose the customer to more persuasive claims for the remedy. Clearly the replies were not all written by Pinkham herself, as they continued after her death.
Pinkham and her "medicinal compound" for feminine disorders became the subject of a bawdy drinking song, "Lily the Pink", of which a sanitized version became a number one hit by The Scaffold in the United Kingdom.
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