Copper advertising scent bottle for “Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Herb Medicine Pills for Constipation Sanative Wash”

Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an American inventor and marketer of an herbal-alcoholic “women’s tonic” for menstrual and menopausal problems, which medical experts dismissed as a quack remedy, but which is still on sale today in a modified form. She was abolitionist and feminist; Isaac Pinkham was ruined financially in the economic depression of the early 1870s Lydia initially made the remedy on her stove before its success enabled production to be transferred to a factory. She answered letters from customers and probably wrote most of the advertising copy. this lady was a is considered one first women who runs her own business in USA