The Washington herald., 1906-11-11

Who, you may ask, IS this Welcome? I never
heard oe him.
t advancement Of medical science, and, especially with
modern physiological that IS striving its best
TO lay bare the puzzled physicians
well lymen since medicine took rank something Of
intrinsic importance in the world.
What has he done2 you ask again. Well that
IN itself would I'LL large chapter. but It is compare
lively small matter when contemplated in connection
with what he proposes doing.
To begin Alright perhaps it is best TO relate something
Of the history Mr.. Welcome Although he has lived
In England many years abated one jot
or title Americansm. and that renders
his latest enterprises of interest this side Of the
Atlantic.
He was born in Wisconsin states recent biogra-
pher spent his early days the midst Of the
Indian tribes in Minnesota, the scene Of Longfelows
Hiawatha.'
He served apprenticeship in pharmacy in various
places and determining reach the high levels OF his
profession finished his student course with at
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy from which he
graduated in 1874.
soon after this he accepted position with promi-
nen drug house New York and while employed there
made visit South America to study cinchona
forests and the South American cinehona and qunine
industries in general
So well did he perform this duty that great financial
benefit and prestige resulted his firm
AN AMERICAN INVASION
The key OF his later and greatest success. however
can traced earlier orgin-to widespread
use. in fact. of the great American pill
would scarcely imagine that pl-that one giob-
1le misery rode our youthful years as
a horrible nghtmaTe-coUd ever expand into an agent
good that destined modify characteristics
OF an entire continent; yet such was the case
The pill a convenient form Of employing concen-
medicine, into during the civil
war number Of firms supplied the armies in the field
and incidentally, made fortunes
When the ended the greatest source OF demand
cut OFF Concentrated medicines pill or capsule
form being swallowed by millions of the people Of
the country demand was not susseiant n
insure profitable heid Tor all the medical manufactur-
ing establishments.
Why not spread the new pharmaceutical pronaeanda
to European countries which were stH taking oupIne
aOe and other nauseous doses in the odashioned wav?
One enterprsing firm answered this question nv send
ing enterprsng agents to England
3Ir. Welcome Of these agents The other
was sias NJ Burroughs, who had developed almost
& genius inducing American druggists and physicians
TO and push the of pharmacautici
preparations
To England, therefore, orders Messrs Burrogbs
and Welcome hied themselves, They found conditions
exceedingly favorable for the reception Of the new idea
and did a thriving business
But they were Americans and business men As soon
as they had fully comprehended all conditions the ones
naturally arose in their mindsi we can do SO
well here for foreign frm why cannot We go into tbe
business and do better ouTsevesYT
In answer to this query there soon arose what in
time became the great chemical OF Burroughs Vrau
come & Co. which became noted all over the world as
manufacturers of ns chemicals alkaIods and pharns
ceuticaI preparations of all kinds.
So little known then Of advanced methods of
serving medicines in concentrated and paatable forms
that instantaneous success attended the enter
prise of Americans. They supplied the British
armv at home and in colonies with drugs and go
became independently rich
After the death OF Mr.. Burroughs MT Welcome con,
and expanded the business He piled uP fortune
that notable even in these days Of Med
cines instance used in the British army during the
Boer supplied by him
With this access OF fortune, Mr. Welcome began to