HEADING THE POLLBY 212 VOTES

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8830, 14 July 1890, Page 4

HEADING THE POLLBY 212 VOTES

(From Modern Truth.) The preat euccess 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 every dealer in medicine in tho United Kingdom, tke colonies, the Continent, and in the United States. Tho publishers recently oonof ived the id6a of ascertaining from the trade the most popular preparation for oatward application now being manufactured and sola. nn this object in view they invited a post card competition, each dealer to name the preparation whioh was most popular with his customers. The publishers received 635 post cards with the following reßultß :—: — S-Jacobs Oil 384 EUiman's Embrooation ... 172 Holioway's Ointment ... 32_ Aloock's Porous Plaisters ... 19 Bow's Liniment ... ... 7 Perry Davis' Pain Killer ... 7 Vaeeline ... ... 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 8t. v 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 medioine in the world, and 10 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 uuch ailments as it will cure, and hence it possesses the confidence of all classes of people, and haß 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 largo and influential papers have been dovoted to the details of what soem to be almost magical cures effected by tbe use of St. Jacobs Oil in local esses coming under tbe mmediate attention of the publishers. St. Jacobs Oil is endorsed by statesmen, judges, the clergy, the medioal profession, as Well as by people in every walk of life. The curative powers of St. Jacobs Oil are Biraply marvellous. It conquers pain quickly and surely. It cures even wben 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 mote than 20 years. After the most thorough and 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 nnd dispensaries of the metropolis and provincial cities, and also on board bur Majesty's troopships and the Cunard Steam Ship Company's fleet.