The Bad and Worthless
are never imitated or counterfeited. This is espeoially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated ia of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bittera was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprang up and began to steal the notices in which tho preßa and the people ol tho country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the crodit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to 11. 8., with variously-devised nomes in which the word "Hop" or "Hops" wcro used in a waj, to induce people to believe they were tho same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cur^s, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word " Hop or "Hops" in their name or in any way connected with them or their nauu>, ni c imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch ikuio of them.
rse jiothiiig- but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule'b naino blown in the i^ass. Trust nothing el&e. 'i tJL, l>rugisi&U and Chemists arc warned against dealine in unitationu or couutorfoits,
The Bad and Worthless
Otago Witness, Issue 1805, 25 June 1886, Page 12
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