PATENT MEDICINES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2665, 22 November 1909, Page 2

PATENT MEDICINES.

FORTUNES MADE OUT OF THEM

The statement in a recent cable message that “the officers charged with the administration of the Australian Commerce Act state that the value of the ingredients in a box of a certain article, for which half-a-crown was charged, was the fortieth part of a penny,” goes a long way towards explaining the vast fortunes made by the proprietors of successful' patent medicines and proprietary foods. Among such fortunes which have within recent times become subject to death duties in the United Kingdom are these of : Senator the Hon. George Taylor Fulford, of Brockviiic, Ontario. Canada, proprietor of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills ... A. ...£1,311,000 Mr. James Epps, thq famous homoeopathic chemist and _ cocoa. manufacturer ... 735,887 Mr. Frederick. Boden Ben-. ger, of Manchester,-propri-G etor of Benger’s Food ... 420,807 Mr. George Handyside, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, proprietor of the “Consumption Cure” 147.860 Mr. Walter: Tom Owbridge, of Hull, proprietor of Owhridge’s Lung Tonic ... 112,214 Mr. Robert Dyer Comm axis, J.P., of Bath, inventor of the Areca Nut Tooth Paste 119,777 Mr Johann Carl Gustav Mellin, of Mellin’s Food ... 114,218 Mr. Thomas Beecham, of St. Helens and Southport, proprietor of Beecham’s Pills 86,680 Mr. Alfred Silvester Day, of Day and Sons, animal medicine manufacturers ... 73,588 Mr Charles Edward Fulford, of the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company ... ... 67,187 Not long ago the death was announced of Mr; Alfred Bowne Scott, < the head of the firm of Messrs Scott and Bowne, Linfited, the 'proprietors of Scott’s Emulsion. Mr. Scott was a citizen of the United States. His English* estaite was valued at £174,947.