The Bad and Worthless

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4611, 15 October 1883, Page 2

The Bad and Worthless

are never imitated or counterfeited. Tbis is especially true of a family medicine, and 'tis positive proof that the remedy imitated is ot the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and provedby the whole worid that Hop Bisters was the purest, best and a&at valuable family medicite on ea?th', many imitations sprang up and began to sleH the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in eveiy. way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, exrtcting to make money on the credit and good name of H.B. Many others" started nostrums-put up in similar style to H. JB., with" variously devised names in which the word " Hop " or " Hops" were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and eapacially those with the word " Hop" or "Hops" in their nameuv in any way connected with them or their naW; are imitations or counterfeits. Beware oi^bem; "■- Touch none o; them. Use nothing bat genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or dusts! 1 of preen Hops on the 1 : white label, and Dr Soo|e.'s name blown in the glass,* Trust^nothing else. Druggists and Chemistt ate warned agaiVst dealing iji imita* tions or counterfeits. v