Patent-medicine seller Lydia Pinkham b2/9/1819 (d5/17/1883).
Her Vegetable
Compound (18% alcohol) could cure any "female complaint" from nervous
prostration to a prolapsed uterus.
Lottie Smyth ne'er had a lover,
Blotchy pimples caused her plight;
But she took nine bottles of Pinkham's--
Sweethearts swarm about her each night.
"The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham," Shay, Pious Friends...
&...
Let's drink-a, drink-a, drink
To Lily the Pink-a, Pink-a, Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case.
by Roger McGough of The Scaffold, [thanx Chris Timson]
&...
Randolph-Legman prints 5 bawdy/scatological testaments for the restorative
powers of Mrs. Pinkham's patent medicine.
&...
I met an elderly, disabled lady recently at the local apothecary. In the
brief wait for our respective balms & ointments we had the opportunity to
swap life histories, life philosophies and play a few hands of the game of
All-Fours. She remarked how wonderful modern medicine is for elderly
disabled citizens. All she regretted was that the wonderful Pinkham's
Compound she used in her youth was not available here. She remembered it
fondly as a true panacea the modern government just won't let us have.
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