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  • Foreword / Glenn Philips
  • A family's rise in times of fortune and despair
  • Lydia stands up, stands out
  • Of bloodletting and poisons
  • Of patent medicines, abuses and all
  • The vegetable compound takes root
  • Portrait of a woman who led the way
  • In death, Lydia still lights the way
  • The 1890s: years of triumph and turmoil
  • The gospel according to Lydia
  • Attack of the muckrakers: an industry under siege
  • Times change, but the compound lives on
  • Call her good, call her bad, call her a success.