James M. Munyon era un estadounidense conocido por los medicamentos patentados homeopáticos, algunos de los cuales promovió en su Hotel Hygeia en la isla Munyon .
James M. Munyon | |
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Nació | Thompson, Connecticut , Estados Unidos | 3 de agosto de 1848
Fallecido | 10 de marzo de 1918 Palm Beach, Florida , Estados Unidos | (69 años)
Nacionalidad | americano |
Carrera profesional
Su primera carrera fue como editor, pero pronto pasó a crear medicamentos homeopáticos a principios de la década de 1890. Empleó a un equipo de químicos y médicos, uno de ellos Hawley Harvey Crippen . [1] Munyon fue declarado culpable de fraude varias veces debido a afirmaciones infundadas de sus medicamentos. [2] Se dice que muchas de sus medicinas consistían principalmente en azúcar y alcohol. Su más famoso se llamaba "Elixir Paw-Paw del Dr. Munyon" y su ingrediente principal era jugo de papaya fermentado. Se sirvió en su resort, Hotel Hygeia, en la isla Munyon . [3] En ese momento, sus curas eran muy apreciadas por el Philadelphia Times escribiendo que "el profesor Munyon es para la medicina lo que el profesor Edison es para la electricidad". [4]
In 1900, he donated two million dollars to establish an industrial school for fatherless girls in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, donating some of the land near his house.[5] The school provided practical training and its operations were funded by Munyon. His policy was to give at least ten percent of his profit to charity.
He bought what is now known as Munyon Island in 1901 and completed construction of a hotel in 1903. The hotel was named Hotel Hygeia after the Greek goddess of health and it catered to wealthy northerners who spent the winters in Palm Beach, Florida. The five-story hotel had twenty-one rooms and eight baths. The hotel burned to the ground in 1917.
Munyon also owned land in Palm Beach, Florida in an area known as the Styx. He rented out properties there mostly to African-Americans. He used sanitation as a cause to evict all of his 150 tenants in 1906 and later sold the land to Edward R. Bradley.[6]
Vida personal
He was married four times and divorced three times. One of his ex-wives, Dora Harvey, authored the 1900 book Half Hour Stories, published by Abbey Press. She was also active in the Merion, Pennsylvania chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
His third marriage was in 1908 when at the age of 60, he married Pauline Neff Metzger, who was 24 at the time. In 1913 she filed for divorce and returned to her career as an actress.
Referencias
- ^ *Larson, Erik (2006). Thunderstruck. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4000-8067-0. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ Patent Medicine Sculptures
- ^ "Palm Beach County Munyon Island History". Archived from the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
- ^ Men of the century, an historical work Pg. 163
- ^ NY Times December 19, 1899
- ^ Palm Beach County History Online
- ^ The New York Times March 11, 1918
- ^ Marketing Communications, Volume 34. 1901.
- ^ AWARD MRS. MUNYON $1.; She Had Sued Mrs. Martin for $25,000 for Alienating Husband's Love. New York Times.