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Treatise on the Diseases of Women

By Lydia Estes Pinkham

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

Discover a bygone era's approach to women’s health, penned by a woman who believed shared experience holds the key to understanding and treating female ailments.

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2009-08-05
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Summary

"Treatise on the Diseases of Women" by Lydia Estes Pinkham is a book from the early 1900s about women's health issues and possible cures. It talks about different diseases that affect women and suggests treatments, including the author’s own Vegetable Compound. The author believes that women understand each other's health problems better than anyone else and uses her own experiences to develop treatments to help them. She points out how important it is for women to talk openly about their health and promises to keep their personal details private when they ask her for help.

About the Author

Lydia Estes Pinkham was an American inventor and marketer of a 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.

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