Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

Remember our previous post about the newspapers on the kitchen floor? Well, one of them has a interesting little advertisement for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The newspaper is dated 1918. Here's the ad, and since the text is hard to read in the picture, we've typed the text too.



OVERDOING - How American Women Break Down

Owing to the modern manner of living and the nervous haste of every woman to accomplish just so much every day, they overdo and as a consequence develop ailments peculiar to their sex, as indicated by backache, headache, nervousness, the blues, displacements and weakness.

Women who find themselves in this condition should slow down, and depend upon that good old-fashioned herb and root remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, to restore them to health and strength, for there is no other remedy known that quickly restores a healthy, normal condition.