Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the title of EDUCATION and the subtitle of "Vegetable" a rather lengthy discourse on Lydia Pinkham and her Compound is presented by TIME for Sept. 20 [p. 20]. I fail to gather the connection to Education and as to the Vegetable, I refer you to the series of articles by Samuel Hopkins Adams in Collier's under the title of "The Great American Fraud." Also to the booklet entitled "Female Weakness Cures" as published by The American Medical Assn...
...Boston is a moral city. And art and morality seldom go hand in hand. At least one has to forget the one to effect the other. Of course one must define this morality as a compound of decadent Puritanism, conventional Catholicism, and that esprit de corps which sends so many faithful followers herding into Copley every Monday night...
...What caused Lydia E. Pinkham to sell a compound...
...woman's trouble, couldn't do the housework, father had got blue and grumpy. Mother had read an advertisement in the farm journal, got some big bottles and pretty soon been all right again. On the bottle it had said, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Nice tasting stuff, too. Lots of women swore...
Great are the dangers of habitual constipation-leading often to autointoxication, intestinal ulcers and even cancer (TIME, Dec. 7). Great too are the dangers of laxatives, purgatives and cathartics.* On the household medicine shelf is the array of epsom salts, castor oil and compound cathartic pills or their masked coordinates. The housewife has learned from a long chain of gossips to use these whenever any of her progeny complain of stomach ache, and as a rule she is safe in their use, for the really serious stomach and intestinal disorders are comparatively rare...