40 Pears' Soap Why is the best soap in the world sold at 15 cents a cake, when poor soaps are sold at 25 and 50 cents? Go back to the beginning. Pears' Soap (unscent ed) was made by request of the Senior Surgeon of St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases, London. Here is his account: I had not long commenced my investigations at St John's Hospital, now some twenty-seven years ago, before I found that do what I would, the want of a pure, unirritating soap constantly nullified all my efforts; the soaps which I tried did so much mischief that many patients, of their own accord, substituted thin gruel, oatmeal and water, and so on. The pharmaceutical chemists, to whom I applied, recommended sometimes their own particular soap (that is, some fancy soap manufactured for them, and stamped with their names, by one or other of the many soap-makers), sometimes the soft soap of the Pharmacopoeia; the latter, besides being very expensive, is too soft, and requires to be kept in a pot. The fancy soaps, with "fancy names, one and all proved failures, and quite as potent for mischief as the commonest yellow. It was under these circumstances that my attention was drawn particularly to the soap question. I was naturally driven to rely a good deal on my own observations, and the ,, following paragraphs are accordingly based almost exclusively on those researches. In the difficulties, then, which I found surrounding the question of soaps, and the mischief which I have already alluded to as resulting from the use of so many of them among the patients at the hospital, I consulted Messrs. Pears, the very old established and well known soap-makers, and they agreed to prepare for me an unscented transparent soap, which should contain the smallest quantity of alkali compatible with due saponification of the fatty matter, and which should yet be sold at such a reasonable price as to be within the reach of the hospital patients. Such was the origin of Pears' Hospital (or Unscented) Transparent Soap, which has now deservedly made its way into so many hospitals, and which I have continued to use at St. John's Hospital as well as personally for twenty-five years with unabated confidence.-Milton's Hygiene of the Skin, pp. 80, 81, and 89 (ed. 1891). It is sold all over the world. makes the cost extremely small. Enormous quantity The fancy soaps at fancy prices are many. The sale of them altogether is very large indeed. A great deal of money is wasted on them-more than is saved on PEARS'. WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, 327 Broadway, N. Y. TO-DAY. Published Weekly, at One Dollar per Year. VOL. III (WHOLE No. 70). WEEKLY RÉSUMÉ OF POLITICS: Legislative, Judicial, Industrial. Special and Complete Reports of ALL the State LEGISLATURES. Also, Abstracts of Proceedings in CONGRESS, BRITISH PARLIAMENT, FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, GERMAN REICHSTAG. The only guide to sound politics in the United Statse. Subscribe at once. 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