Lydia Estes Pinkham was born Feb. 9, 1819 in Lynn, Massachusetts
and died May 17, 1883. She concocted very successful herbal
alcoholic medications for women with menstrual and menopausal
pains, but some of her herbal concoctions for neighbors proved in
some cases to be deadly. As a young woman she supported the
feminist and moral positions. In 1976 Ms. Pinkham marked Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and was the best known patented
medicines of the 19th century.