The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-24
MONEY IN MAKING MEDICINES.
OVER 100000 IN THEIR MANUFAC-
TURE IN SAVANNAH.

I
! over $4,000 Paid in Wages Annu-
aIy-Three Hundred People De-
rive Their support From the In
dustry-The Leading Manufacture
ers and TheirProducts.
There is a popularity about the manu-
facture of patent medicines, that it is
but little known in the city where they
are extensively manufactured. and beyond
the fact that patent or proprietary medi-
cine is made in a town. little or nothing
of it there is known except 10 few men
who are engaged in similar pursuits, OF
who furnish supplies.
Savdnnah has a number Of patent medi-
cine manufacturers, and many will be
| surprised that the industry forms an i'm,
portant branch of the many and varied
industries that Savannah possesses, and
at the same time one OF the most SUCCESS
ful and lucrative ones.
It is very difficult matter TO place an
estimate on the actual capital invested
in the different establishments. If Judged
by their original capitalization, the
amount would not exceed 100000 or $780,
intrinsic
value of the business be judged by the
only known commercial criterion of their
| intrinsic value, their earning capacity,
| then 100000 or even $4,000 would hardly
reach the mark of their value So much
is certain, that $4,000 or $500. 900 cash would
not purchase all these interests, If they are
in fact purchaseable at any price.
] kTf-t,
| large proportion of its income in adver-
Using In various ways, some through
| newspapers, some through extensive can
| Vassing and a display Of attractive signs.
| While others still send an enormous
amount of literature by mail. All, how
ever, consider the amounts paid out for
| advertising additional capital invested
which will yield compound interest.
Sixty-five hands are employed in the va
rlous patent medicine factories in Sa-
| vannah. The wages and salaries paid
out aggregate $4,000 or $4,000 annually.
and over 275 of Savannahs inhabitants
receive their bread and butter from the
industry.
The largest manufacturers of proprle-
tary medicines are undoubtedly Lippman
Bros. This branch forms an important
| part OF their wholesale drug business
which is one of the largest, If not the
largest, between Baltimore and New Or
| At0AS vi liie SeduOdEO. MeSSrS. I1Dpman
| Bros, manufacture, besides the now uni
versaly known and leading blood puri-
| her, +. p. p. Lippmans liver pills, Lpp-
| mans diarrhoea mixture L.ppman's
| cough balsam, Perry's toothache drops,
kayton's oil of life, besides the numer-
Gus other preparations put up by whole
sale drug houses.
The most interesting of all is the MANN
facture of Lippmans blood purifier, p. p.
p, whose success as a medicine Is only
! equalled by its commercial success and
the magnitude of its manufacture. 1t is
sold in every state of the union Five
| years ago the sales were $50 dozen bottles
| this year the sales are 12,24S dozen bottles,
or 1905 bottles. 1t is true that it is well
| advertised, as it is advertised in 5O41
| newspapers, but all the advertising in the
| world would be of little avail if the medi-
cine We're not effective medicine and a
| great boon to humanity as one of the
| greatest blood purifiers as then, and only
then, printers ink and advertising will
act successfully as a medium to convey
| truths and facts. That a combination of
a worthy article and advertising pays is
shown by the intention of Messrs. Lipp-
man Bros. to increase their advertisement
this year TO 10000 newspapers scattered
| throughout the union, Canada and, posi-
bly,, in the West Indies and South Amer
lea.
One entire floor of the large I.Lppman
| building, 80 feet by 80 feet, is entirely oc-
| cupied and solely used for manufacturing
purposes, under the supervision of an able
| and competent chemist. Three men and
| twenty-one girls are steadily employed in
manufacturing p. p. p. alone, and their
pay roll for labor alone is 500 a week, or
over $4,000 year.
The capital originally invested in p p.
p. was $4,000. What its commercial value
is to-day 1t is difficult to tell. How great
success is achieved is always of interest
and a brief history of the medicine will
be acceptable reading matter.
Messrs. Lippman Bros. purchased the
mericine from Dr. Whitehead. II was then
well tested and locally well known. All it
| needed was TO make its qualities known
as the more universally it was tested the
more patent its value was found to be-
come. How Dr. Whitehead ever got the
formula will probably never be known to
a certainty, but those best posted as to
its history claim that at least part of
the formula had been in use hundreds. if
not thousands of years.
p. p. p. stands for Prickly Ash Poke
Root and Potassium
The first two, poke and pricl1ly ash are
plants indigenous to North America
They have been for time immemorial used
by the Indians with wonderful success as
tonics and blood purifiers, and as the
knowledge of their virtues and uses was
| probably inherited by the Indians from
the highly civilized. but long extinct AZ
tees, the use of the first part of the for
mula will probably reach back thousands
of years.
A well informed gentleman claims that
DR.. Whitehead. while practicing medicine
in Ware county, obtained the first part of
the formula from the remnant of a few
Cherokee Indians who lived in
or near the great Okeefenokee
| swamps. These half-breeds were
well known for their blood purify
ing compounds and the people came from
great distances TO be treated by them. The
modern man of science discovered that
these two vegetable remedies acted won
derfully well in connection with that uni
versally known blood purifier iodide of
potassium. Numerous tests made by DR..
Whitehead showed beyond a doubt that
rheumatism and all blood diseases, many
of which were considered as incuralyle
yielded easily to the great combination
of remedy as old as the hills, with mod
ern science resulting in the manufacture
of one of the most successful of medicines
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