3-085-799 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for Bovril, 1898. 'There is only one B O V R I L - ALWAYS THE SAME. ALWAYS TO BE RELIED UPON. A scientific preparation containing the whole nourishment of Beef, in the form easiest of digestion and assimilation. PRESCRIBED BY MEDICAL MEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. USED BY ALL THE PRINCIPAL HOSPITALS. SUPPLIED TO BRITISH AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. SOLD BY OVER 150,000 CUSTOMERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM ALONE. "THE GLORY OF A MAN IS HIS STRENGTH." 40 POUNDS OF PRIME OX BEEF are used in the manufacture of One Pound of Bovril, so don't be deluded by high-sounding advertisements into buying any cheap Fluid Beef imitations. BOVRIL does for the System what nothing else will do. IT RESTORES VIGOUR, MAINTAINS HEALTH, AND REPELS THE ATTACK OF DISEASE. IT IS SUITABLE FOR YOUNG AND OLD, THE INVALID, AND THE ATHLETE. BOVRIL LIMITED, Food Specialists and Hospital Purveyors, LONDON. Contractors to Iter Majesty's and Foreign Governments. Chairman - The Right Hon. LORD PLAYFAIR, G.C.B., LL.D. CONSULTING CHEMIST: SIR EDWARD FRANKLAND, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.I.C., Corr. Mem, French Institute. ANALYTICAL CHEMIST: WILLIAM HARKNESS, F.I.C., F.C.S., F.R.M.S., 40 Years Food Analyst to H.M. Government.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.