PALMER'S NEURALGIA CURE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15807, 2 January 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

PALMER'S NEURALGIA CURE.

GOOD LUCK AN INGREDIENT,

WHAT THE SHELL DID.

SOLDIERS' TRENCHANT HUMOUR.

Out in the trenches—a long, long way from Tipperary—the British soldier has made himself at home, with his customary contempt for obstacles and conveniences. Fighting is his work, and he takes to it with the utmost good grace. He has even developed a wit to fit the situationa "trenchant humour"—which consists in nicknaming impertinently all the horrifying weapons that are turned against him and with which he is supposed to be impressed. The New York Tribune gives one example:— Here is the tale of the private who was suffering from neuralgia as he lay in the trenches and who found a most unusual cure. It is told in a letter from a soldier to his mother, as follows:—

"We're just keeping at it in the same old slogging style that always brings us out on top. There's one chap in our company has got a ripping cure for neuralgia, but he isn't going to take out a patent, because it's too risky and might kill the patient. Good luck's one of the ingredients, and you can't alwavs be sure of that.

"He was lying, in the trenches the other day, nearly mad with pain in his face, when a German shell burst close by. He wasn't hit, but the explosion knocked him senseless for a bit. 'Me neuralgia's gone,' says he, when he camo around. ' And so's six of your mates,' says we. ' Oh, crikey! ' says he. His name's Palmer, and that' 6 why we call the German shells now 'Palmer's Neuralgia Cure.' "