SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS EVERYWHERE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8784, 21 May 1890, Page 4

HEADING THE POLLBY 212 VOTES

{From Modern TricX.) The preat success and popularity of an

I article has now beeD confirmed by a Poet Card Competition inaugurated by The Caemist and Druggist, a copy of which reaches nearly every dealer in rcedicino in -thu Uaitod Kingdom, tha colonies, the Continent, and in the United States. The publishers recently conceived tho id6a of ascertaining from tbe trade tha most popular preparation tor c atward application now being manufactured and sola. T\ lib this object in view they invited a post card competition, each dealer to name the preparation which was most popular with his customers. The publishers received G35 post cards with the fol'owing results :—: — S- Jacobs Oil 384 Eliinaan's Embrocation ... 172 Holloway's Ointment ... 32 Alcock's Porous Plaisters ... 19 Bow's Liniment 7 Perry Davis' Pain Killer ... 7 Vaseline ... ... 4 Caticura ... ... 2 while eight other outward applications had one vote each. It will thus be seen that St. Jacobs Oil was named by 384 different dealerß as being the most popular remedy, leaving 251 (loss than half) to be divided among 15 other remedies ; showing conclusively that St. Jacobs Oil to-day stands preeminent among all other proprietary medicines for outward application. In fact, the sales are more than double those of aay other proprietary medicine in the world, and 10 times greater than those of all other liniments and embrocations. This wonderful success rests on tho solid foundation of merit (acknowledged everywhere), It iB advertised only for i»uch ailments as it will cure, aad hence it possesses the confidence of all classes of people, and has become n household word in every oipilised country. Its success and popularity has become the subject of comment by almost tbe entire presß of the country ; in many instances the leading articles of large and influential papers have b6en 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 m mediate 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 o£ St. Jacobs Oil aro simply coarvellous. It conquers pain quickly and surely. It cure 3 even when everytbing 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 moie than 20 years. After the most thorough and practical test, St. Jucoba Oil has received Six Gold Meda's at different international exhibitions for its marvellous power to conquer pain. It iB used extensively in the leading hospitals and dispensaiies of the metropolis and provincial cities, and also ou board bur Majesty's troopships and tho Cunard Stoam Ship Company's fleet.