The Bad and Worthless

Southland Times, Issue 8062, 17 July 1885, Page 4

The Bad and Worthless

'Are never imitated or counterfeited, his is especially true of a family .medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world ,that Hopßittew was the purest, best;; and jmost valuable family- medicine on eartb^ (many imitatiomi sprung. up : and began to steal the notices in which the press and the .people- of the country Tiad expressed, the of H..8 , and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use then stuff {instead, -expecting to make money on the jcredit and good name of H. B. Many others •startednostrums put up in similar style to ;H. 8., with variouslydevisednames in which the word •• Hop" or " Hops" were used in a wav to indnce people to believe they were ' the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended * remedies or cures, no matter what their styl« 'or name is, and especially, those with the 1 word " Hop" or, V Hops" in their name ,or in any way connected with them or trbeir name, are imitations or counterfeits. !< Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a branch or cluster of green • Hops on the white label, and DrSoule's ' name blown on the glass. Trust nothing , else. Druggists and Chemists are warned . against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.