HEADING THE POLL BY 212 VOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 147, 22 June 1889, Page 3

HEADING THE POLL BY 212 VOTES.

(From "Modern Truth.")

The great success and popularity of an article has now been confirmed by a Posb Card Competition inaugurated by " The Chemist and Druggist," a copy of which reaches nearly every dealer in medicine in the United Kingdom, the colonies, the Continent, and in the United States. The publishers recently conceived bhe idea of aecertainiug from bhe trade the most popular preparation for outward application now being manufactured and sold. Wibh bhis objecb in view they invited a posb card competition, each dealer to name the preparation which was most popular with his customers.

The publishers received 635 posb cards wibh bhe following resulbs :—

St. Jacob's Oil 384 Elliman's Embrocation ... 172 Hoiioway's Ointment ... 32 Alcock's Porous Piasters ... 19 Bow's Liniment 7 Perry Davis's Pain Killer... 7 Vaseline ... ... 4 Cuticura ... .. 2 while eight other outward applications had one vote each.

It will thus be seen that Sb. Jacobs Oil was named by 384 diiierent dealers as being the'most popular remedy, leaving 251 (less than half) to be divided among 15 other remedies; showing conclusively that St. Jacobs Oil to-day stands pre-eminent among all other proprietary medicines for outward application. In fact, the sales are more than double those of any proprietary medicine in tho world, and 10 times greater than those of all other liniments and embrocations.

This wonderful success rests on the solid foundation of merit (acknowledged everywhere). It is advertised only for such ailments as it will cure, and hence ib possesses the confidence of all classes or" people, aud has become a household word in every civilised country.

Its success and popularity has become the subject of comment by almost the entire press of the country ; in many instances the leading articles of large and influential papers have been devoted to the details of what seem to be almost magical cures effected by the use of St. Jacobs Oil in local cases coming under the immediate attention of the publishers. Sb. JacobsOilisendorsed by statesmen, judges, the clergy, the medical profession, as well as by people in every walk of life.

The curative powers of Sb. Jacobs Oil are simply marvellous. Ib conquers pain quickly and surely. Ib cures even when everything eke has failed. It has cured thousands of cases of rheumatism .and neuralgia which had resisted treatment for bhe greater pare of a lifetime, lb has cured people who have been crippled with pain for more than twenty years. After the mosb thorough and practical test, Sb. Jacob;-? Oil has received Six Gold Medals at different international exhibitions for its marvellous power to conquer pain. It is used extensively in the leading hospitals and dispensaries of the metropolis and provincial cities, and also on board her Majesty's troop-ships and the Cunard Steam Ship Company's fleet.