The First Woman To Put Her Face On Packaging Got Trolled Like Crazy

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11. You're trying to put modern day mores on a 19th century woman.

The song you posted is satire written almost 100 years after Lydia Pinkham died, and is far removed from the original lyrics touting its "curative" properties, especially to women. She marketed to women whose complaints were generally ignored, and they made her a wealthy woman in an era when women had little opportunity to become an entrepreneur or successful business tycoon.

Keep in mind that in the 1800s there was no prohibition or stigma on the use of alcohol, and patent medicines were popular alternatives to the questionable training of doctors and lack of medical knowledge of that era. You can ridicule the common practices of centuries past, but you can't compare the accepted social attitudes and limited knowledge of the past using the same yardstick that we apply to modern culture, science and medical practices.