Lydia Pinkham - “Networking”

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Jul 31, 201863:14Business

In a time when women were desperate for safe and effective treatments for women’s health issues, Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compounds became one of the best-known medicines of the 19th century. She began by giving away th...

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