PATENT MEDICINES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 667, 18 November 1909, Page 7

PATENT MEDICINES.

PROPORTION OF PROFIT, (By Telegraph-Press Assoclation-Oopyrlrut.) Melbourne, Novomber 17. As showing tho enormous profits made in some proprietary medicines, tho officers charged with the administration of the Commerce Act stats that the value' of the ingredients in a box of a certain articlo, for which half-a-crown was charged, was tho fortieth part of a penny. MILLIONS IN PATENT MEDICINES AND FOODS. Among tho largo fortunes made by the proprietors of successful patent medicines and proprietary foods which havo within recent times become subject'to death duties in tho United Kingdom aro those of:— Senator the Hon. George Taylor Fulford, of Brockville, Ontario, Canada, proprietor of Dr. Williams's Pink Pills .£1,811,000 Mr. James Epps, the famous homoeopathic -chemist and cocoa manufacturer , 735,837 Mr. Frederick Boden Benger, of Manchester, proprietor ot Bcngor's Food 420,807 Mr. George Handyside, .of New-castlo-on-Tyne, proprietor of tho "Consumption Cure" 117,860 Mr. Walter Tom Owbridgo, of flnll, proprietor of Owbndge's Lung Tonio 112,214 Mr, Robert; Dyer, Commans, J;P., ot ,Bath,.inventor' of tho Areca Nut ; Tooth -Paste :Vii 119,777 Mr. 'Johann Xkrl Gustav Mellin, of 114,218 Mr: .Thomasi St. Helens v-and' Southport, proprietor of ■"-' Beeohani's'Pills' '. 86,680 Mr.'Alfred Silvester Day, of Day and ,'■.- Sons,', animal 1 ■ medicino manufacs turorsV -.';."iii:-A-.i'.v. : : 73,588 ;Mr: Charles Edward Fulford,'of the •:•■'■ Bile Bean\; ; 'Manufacturing Com- -.;': pany ;.......:;.:....„ 67,187 Not long ago'the.death was announced of Mr. ■Alfred Bowne.'Scott, tho head of'the firm of Messrs...Scott ;I ftnd Bowne; Limited, tho proprietors of Emulsion. Mr." Scott was a citizen -of the" : United States. His English .valued at' .£174,947. J