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'Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound'

Jennifer Schmidt of member station WBUR takes a look at the history of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The potion has been available in the United States for over a century, and its various marketing campaigns over the years have charted a century's changing responses to women's health problems.

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