HEADING THE POLL BY 212 VOTES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 908, 26 July 1889, Page 25

HEADING THE POLL BY 212 VOTES.

(Prom Modferh Truth.) The great success and popularity of an article has now been confirmed, by a Post Card Competition inaugurated by the Chemist and Druggist, a copy of which reaches nearly J ' every dealer in medicine in the United Kingdom, the Colonies, the Continent, and in the United States. The publishers recently conceived the idea of ascertaining from the trade the most popular preparation for outward application now being manufactured and Bold. Wit this object in view they in. vited a post card competition, each dealer .to name the preparation which was most popular with his customers. The publishers received 635 post cards with the following results St. Jacobs Oil ... ... ••• 884 Elliman's Embrocation ... 172 Holloway’s Ointment... .;. 32 Alcock’s Porous Plaistera ... 19 Bow’s Liniment ... ... 7 Perry Davis’ Pain Killer ... 7 Vaseline ... ... ... 4 Cuticura ... ... ••• 2 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 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 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 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 almoßt magical 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 people in every walk of life. The curative powers of St. Jacobs Oil are Bimply marvellous. It conquers pain quickly and surely. It cures even when everything else has failed. It has cured thousands of cases of rheumatism and neuralgia which had resisted treatment for the greater part of a lifetime. It has cured people who have been crippled with pain for more than 20 years. After the most thorough anti practical test, St. .Jacobs 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 troopships and the Ounard Steam Ship Company’s fleet.