The ladies wrote the makers of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, asking for samples.
Even Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, patented in 1876 "for the female discomforts," is advertising itself as Lydia Pinkham Herbal Compound, "now with black cohosh".
According to Mr. Bleed, he got 17 bottles, including a medicine bottle for a consumption cure and a bottle for a women's tonic called Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
A major technique involved the use of a vegetable compound moistened with coconut milk to model heads or oversize seated figures over coconuts, bamboo frames, or other hard materials.
After all, among the book's black-and-white illustrations are famous ads for Pears' Soap, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Pepsodent toothpaste ("Magic lies in pretty teeth -- remove that film") and Listerine mouthwash, with the little girl making a sour face over her mother's bad breath.
In the late 19th century, teacher-turned-snake-oil-seller Lydia E. Pinkham used her image and signature to help sell her eponymous vegetable compound as a cure-all for faintness, flatulence, depression and other "female" complaints.
The customer was asking where she could find "Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound".
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, containing a mixture of the herb black cohosh and a prodigious belt of alcohol, is actually a relatively "modern" herbal remedy for menopausal complaints.
There is the issue of sustainability, he reminded me — by some estimates it takes 30 times as much land to raise animals industrially as it does to raise vegetables — compounded by the fact that we'll soon need to grow more food for ourselves rather than feeding it to animals.
During the past two hundred and fifty years, an array of methods and materials have been used on the easier-to-unwrap scrolls, including rose water, mercury, "vegetable gas," sulfuric compounds, and papyrus juice — most of which have caused grievous harm to the delicate plant material on which the text is inscribed.
