HOLLOWAY'S MEDICINES.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 267, 22 December 1874, Page 5

HOLLOWAY'S MEDICINES.

To the Proprietor of the Cromwell Arotts. Sir. —I take leave to infann you that Messrs Myers ami Solomon, of Sydney, advise me, under date July 31.1874, that some cases of pills labelled " Holloway's Pills. New York," have been sold in the city by auction to hawkers and others. They have also sent me a box of the spurious imitations of mine. My medicines are neither made nor sold in any part rtf the United States. In the Melbourne Argm of sth .rune, 1874, is a letter signed " Percy L. Hardnage," (a copy of which I enclose.) in which he calls himself my authorised travelling agent. This is false, as I neither know the man nor have I had correspondence with him. It therefore maybe that he is travelling for the purpose of disposing of the spurious make of the medicines to which Messrs Myers and Solomon have been pleased to call my attention.—{ am, &c, Thomas Hollow ay. London, September 28. 1874. To the. Editor of the Argus. Sir.—Permit me through the medium of your valuable journal to warn and to direct the attention of the public to a gross outrage which it being perpetrated in the shape of spurious imitstions of Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which are being vended as the genuine artic'e. Detectives are at work endeavouring to discover the originators of the fraud. As yet they have been unsuccessful, though it has been pretty well ascertained that the said imitation is manufactured in the colony, and is not imported. The spurious resemble the genuine articles onlv in external appearance and the manner in which packed up. I have had both the pills and the ointm nt analvsed, and find that the pills contain opium in a ra'he* excessive degree, but the ointment is simply lard, with a slight trace of turpentine. To distinguish the genuine from the false.flook at the pamphlet which accompanies each box and pot. and see if the words " Holloway's Pills and Ointment, London.' are interwoven in tha water mark of each leaf. If not, then the article is f> counterfeit. Bv inserting the above you will confer a favour on the public, and oblige yours. &0., PKfcoY L. Hardnaok, Special Travelling Agent for Thomas HoUoway. —Melbourne Argv.%, June 28, 1374.