James M. Munyon James M. Munyon Dr. James M. Munyon was known for homeopathic patent medicines, some of which he promoted at his Hotel Hygeia on Munyon Island. His first career was as a publisher, but he soon moved on to creating homeopathic medicines in the early 1890s. He employed a staff of chemists and physicians, one of them Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. Munyon was found guilty of fraud several times due to unsubstantiated claims for his medicines. Many of his medicines are said to have consisted mostly of sugar and alcohol. His most famous one was named "Dr. Munyon's Paw-Paw Elixir" and
James Inglis (physician) he named after Christopher Rawson, the founder of the Halifax Literary & Philosophical Society. Interested in phrenology, Dr. Inglis researched the brain of Eugene Aram, an infamous English murderer. Dr. Inglis was a Freemason and a past Master of the Yorkshire Lodge in Halifax. Dr. Inglis married Louisa Rawson (ca. 1826-1909), the daughter of Jeremiah Rawson, Esq., on 3 May 1842 at St. John the Baptist Church in Halifax. The couple had the following children: A great-granddaughter of Dr. Inglis was Surrealist performance artist Sheila Legge. A brother-in-law of Dr. Inglis, and a fellow physician, was Dr. Charles Ransford. Dr.