Guest TimT, there are many verses to "Lydia Pinkham;" no one version is sacrosanct. Carl Sandburg in "The American Songbag" (1927) printed only two, one with the line 'And the papers publish'd her face.'

Has anyone read "Lydia E. Pinkham's Private Text Book upon Ailments Peculiar to Women"? Interesting to a child who discovered his mother's copy hidden in her undies drawer (speaking of my parent's time before 1920).
In addition to her vegetable compound, the company also sold Lydia E. Pinkhams Blood Medicine. Good for humors and eruptions.

Probably safer than the stuff in the bottles sold at the 'health food stores'.

Interesting reading in Pinkham's old recipe books, with a testimonial on every page (more than one at American Memory)

"....I was married four years and had a great love for children and was really discouraged because I didn't have any. At the time I had a very troublesome complaint and someone told me to take Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and it sure would help me. In a year I had the sweetest little baby girl..... So now I believe in the old saying, 'there's a baby in every bottle.'"

The "War Time Cook and Health" of 1912 has war meals suggested by the U. S. Food Administration. Who could resist their recipe for baked hominy and fish? In all of these booklets, over 50% of each page was devoted to testimonials, with a name and address appended to each.