HEADING THE POLL BY 212 VOTES.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7385, 10 August 1889, Page 6

HEADING THE POLL BY 212 VOTES.

[From "Modern Truth."] The preat fuccess and popularity of «a article has now been confirmed by aW* card competition Inaugurated W *tS, " Chemist and Druggist,' p a copy of which reaches nearly every dealer in medicine In the United Kingdom the colonies, to! Continent, and the United States. The publishers recently conceived the ideacl ascertaining from the trade the most Done, lar preparation for outward application now betug manufactured find sold. With this object in view they invited a poet cart competition, each dealer to name the preparation which was most popular with his customers.

The publishers received 635 post cud* with the following results:—

St. Jacobs 0i1... ... t#t $84 Billiman's Embrocation "" 172 Holloway's Ointment... "* 32 Alcock's Porous Plaisters .„ 19 Bow's Liniment ... 7 Perry Davis' Pain Killer "." 7 Vaseline ... ... ... 4 Cuticura ... ... ~. 3 while eight other outward applications had one vote each.

It will thus be seen that St. Jacobs Oil was named by 384 different dealers as being the most popular remedy, leaving 231 (less than half) to be divided among 15 other remedies; showing conclusively than St. Jacobs Oil to-day stands preeminent among all other proprietary medicines for outward application. Iα fact, the sales are more than double those of any other proprietary medicine in the world, and ten 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 it possesses the confidence of all classes of people, and has become a household word n every civilised country.

Its success and popularity has become the subject of comment by almost (he entire press of the country; in many lα* stances the leading articles of large and influential papers have been devoted to the details of what seem to be almost mapical cures effected by the use of St. Jacobs Oil in local cases coming under the immediate attention of the publishers, St. Jacobs Oil is endorsed by statesmen, judges, the clergy, the medical profession, as well as by the people in every walk ej ife.

The curative powers of St. Jacobs Oil are simply marvellous. It conquers nala quickly and surely. It cures even when, everything else has failed. It has cur«d thousands of cases of rheumatism and neuralgia which had resisted treatment for the greater part of a lifetime. It hot cured people who have been crippled with pain for more than 20 years. After the most thorough and practical test, Sfe. Jacobs Oil has received Six Gold Medals at different international exhibitions tax Its marvellous power to conquer pain. It is used extensively in the leading hossU tals and dispensaries of the metropout and provincial cities, and also on board hfet Majesty's troopshipsandtheCunard SteatQ Ship Company s fleet.