FORTUNES IN PATENT MEDICINES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 412, 18 July 1908, Page 4

FORTUNES IN PATENT MEDICINES.

£174,947 Made from Scott’s Emulsion.

Another large fortune made out of a patent medicine has been left by Mr Alfred Browne Scott, the head of the firm of Messrs Scott, Browne, Ltd., the proprietors of Scott’s Emulsion.

Probate has been granted on his English estate being valued at ,£i74,947 gross. Mr Scott, who was a citizen of the United States, left the whole of his fortune to his wife and children.

Among other large fortunes made by the proprietors of successful medicines and proprietary foods which have recently become subject to death duties are those of: Senator the Hon. George Taylor Fulford, of Brockville, Ontario, Canada, proprietor of Dr Williams’ Pink Pills, £1,311,000. Mr James Epps the famous homoepathic chemist and cocoa manufacturer, £735* 8 37* Mr Frederick Bodeu Benger, of Manchester, proprietor of Benger’s F00d,£420, 807. Mr George Handyside, of New-castle-on-Tyne, proprietor of the “Consumption Cure,” £147,860.

Mr Walter Tom Owbridge, of Hull, proprietor of Owbridge’s Lung Tonic, ,£112,214. Mr Robert Dyer Commans, J.P. of Bath, inventor of the Areca Nut Toothpaste, £ng.777• Mr Johann Carl Gustav Mellin, of Mellin’s Food, ,£114,218. Mr Thomas Beecham, of St Helen’s and Southport, proprietor of Beecham’s Pills, ,£860,680. Mr Alfred Silvester Day, of Day and Sons, animal medicine manufacturers, £73,588. Mr Charles Edward Fulford, of Bile Bean Manufacturing Company £67,187.