HEADING THE POLLBY 212 VOTES

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8799, 7 June 1890, Page 4

HEADING THE POLLBY 212 VOTES

(From Modern Truth.) The preat succesß and popularity of an article has now been confirmed by a Post Card Competition inaugurated by Tbe Chemist and Druggist, a copy of which reaches nearly every dealer in medicine in the Uaited Kingdom, the colonies, the Continent, and in the United States. Th» publishers recently conceived the id&a of ascertaining from the trade the most popular preparation for outward application now being manufactured and sola. ltb 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 635 post cards with the following results :—: — S- Jacobs Oil 384 Elliman's Embrocation ... 172 Holloway's Ointment ... 32 Aloock's Porous Plaisters ... 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 preeminent 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 10 tinies 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 s.uoh ailments as it will cure, and hence it possesses tho confidence of all classes of people, and has become a household word in every civilised country. Its suocess and popularity has become the subject of comment by almost the entire press of the country ; in many iustances the leading articles of large and influential papers have been devoted to the details of what seem to be almost magical cures effected by the nee of St. Jacobs Oil in local cases coming under the mmodiate attention of the publishers. St. Jacobs Oil is endorsed by ''statesmen, judges, the clergy, the medical profession, as well as by people ia every walk of life. The curative powers of St. Jacobs Oil are simply marvellous. It conquers pain quickly and surely. It cures even when everything elsa has faiied. 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 I most thorough and practical test, St. Jucobs Oil baa 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 ou board hor Majesty's troopships and the Cunard Steam Ship Company's fleet.