All Blog Posts Tagged 'frontier' (3)

I wanted to share this biography of one of the biggest producers of patent

medicine, Lydia E Pinkham. Her success was not only the product, which like all the patent medicines contained a

high alcohol content, but her unique marketing strategy.



Her strategy was to simply give the women of the 1800's a voice. Women' s medical

conditions and problems were not discussed in the 1800's. Lydia Pinkham encouraged women to… Continue

The practice of medicine in these United (and for the period 1861-1865, somewhat disunited) States was for most of the 19th century a pretty hit or miss proposition, both in practice and by training. That many sensible people possessed pretty extensive kits of medicines – the modern equivalents of which are administered as prescriptions or under the care of a licensed medical professional – might tend to indicate that the qualifications required to hang out a shingle and practice medicine were… Continue

The westward movement of Americans rolled west of the Appalachians and hung up for a decade or two on the barrier of the Mississippi-Missouri. It was almost an interior sea-coast, the barrier between the settled lands, and the un-peopled and tree-less desert beyond, populated by wild Indians. To be sure, there were scattered enclaves, as far-distant as the stars in the age of “shanks’ mare” and team animals hitched to wagons, or led in a pack-train: far California, equally distant Oregon, the… Continue