Is it HOT in here, or is it just me?

Imagine my surprise when I went looking for a remedy for hot flashes recently––strictly for historical research, of course––and I ran across this:



Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound


As it turns out, Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was the mother of all patent medicines in the 19th century. And in the 1880s, Lydia Pinkham was a household name. The ingredients in her famous vegetable
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Published on January 19, 2010 00:25
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