HEADING THE POLLBY 212 VOTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8861, 21 August 1890, Page 4

HEADING THE POLLBY 212 VOTES.

(From Modern Truth.) The great success 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 1 the Uiiited Kingdom, the colonies, the; Continent, and in the United States. The publishers recently conceived the idea of ascertaining from the nade the most, popular preparation for cat ward application now being manufactured and sola. ltd 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 reoeived 635 post cards with the following results :— S*. Jacobs Oil , 384 Elliman's Embrooation ... 172 Holioway's Ointment ... 32 Alcock'e Porous Plaisters ... 19 Bow's Liniment 7 Perry Davis' Pain Killer ... 7 Vaseline , 4 Cuticura 2 while eight other outward applications bad one vote each. It will thus bo seen that St. Jacobs Oil was named by 384 different dealers as being the most popular remedy, leaving 251 (1688 than half) to.be divided among 15 other remedies ; showing conclusively that St. Jacobs Oil to-day stands preeminent among ail other proprietary medicines for outward* application. In *set. the sales are more' than double those of any other proprietary medicine in the ' world, and 10 times greater than tboßO of all othor liniments and embrocations. , -'This wonderf al success rests on the solid .foundation of merit (acknowledged everywhere). It is advertised only for buch ailments as it will euro, and hence it possesses the confidence of all classes of people, and has become a household word in every civilised country. Its succesß 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 devoted to the details of " what seem to be almost magical cures effected . by tbe use of St. Jacobs ' Oil in local pasea coining under the mmediate attention of .the publishers. St. Jacobs Oil is endorsed by statesmen, judges, the clergy, the medical profession, an well as by people in every walk of life. The oufaHve powers of St. Jacobs Oil are sujoply omrvellouo, It oonquors puia quiol^md iure)y, It wire* pycr wlien'

everything else has failed. It has ouredj thousands of pases of , rheumatism and; neuralgia 'which hadjresisted treatment jEor 1 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 t test, St.! Jacobs Oil has received Six Gold Medals at different international exhibitions for; its rriarvellous power to conquer pain. It is used extensively in the leading hospitals and -'dispensaries of the metropolis and provincial cities, and also on board hor Majesty's troopships and the Cunard Steam Ship Company's fleet. ■