An Open Letter.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7066, 19 January 1891, Page 4

An Open Letter.

To the Editor of " Figaro " (London.)

Dear Sir, — As a rule no one can treat advertisements for patent medicines with more indifference than I do, but I must say that the advertisement in the "Figauo" about three weeks ago "fetched" me so that I at once sent for a bottle of St Jacobs oil. Of course, I did not expect any "magical" effects such as were described in tho " Figaro •" but still I thought I would try the saintly oil. For many years I have had stiff knees in tbe winter, and last year they continued stiff and weak all through the summer. This winter they have been worse than ever. I rubbed ray knees with the oil for a few minutes, but felt nothing, not even the warm feeling of hartshorn and oil, but shortly after I felt a tingling in each knee, going deeper and deeper down for more than an hour, after which, my amazement, one knee was quite cured, the other nearly so. A second application, the next morning, did forthe ailment altogether. Now, how do you account for this? Is it not almost magical? I am relating the wonder to all my friends, and advising them never to be without the patriarchal fluid. I remain, yours sincerely, ARTHUR J. MELHUISH.

12, Old Bond street, London.

[The above letter appeared in the " Figaro" on February 11, 1888, wholly unsolicited by anyone. We believe there never was a remedy which has called forth such universal and spontaneous endorsement as St Jacobs oil. Its effects seem, as Mr Melhuish says, "almost magical." People who have been crippled for years are permanently cured almost instantaneously by the use of this wonderful remedy!]