A SEVERE KICK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9087, 22 June 1888, Page 6

A SEVERE KICK.

Mr. W. Martin Forster, the well-known chemist of Mackay, Queensland, sends the following letter to the Charles A. Vogeler Company, the proprietors of St. Jacobs oil :—

" Gentlemen, —Although I am aware it ia contrary to the custom of the trade to publicly endorse a patent medicine of foreign origin, yet I think I may be pardoned for saying a few words in favour of St. Jacobs oil. About a year ago I received a severe kick on the leg from a horse ; so severe, indeed, that I fully expected to be incapacitated from attending to my business for at least a fortnight. I received the injury at night, and before morning the leg had swollen to an enormous size. The pain was very acute, and I was unable to do anything my assistant being absent. In this emergency, by my wife's aid, I procured from the shop a bottle of St. Jacobs oil, with which I soaked a pad of lint, and kept it applied to the injured part for a few hours, when, to my surprise and delight, the pain left, and before night I was able to attend to my business. I may say I suffered no further inconvenience from the kick, although an enlargement of the bone, which remained for several months afterward, attested pretty substantially the severity of the blow dealt me by the horse.—l am, gentlemen, yours faithfully, "W. M. Forster. " Mackay, September 8, 1887."