164 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER. 



Q. Where do you reside ? A. In this city, No. 30^ 

 West Fifty-fourth street. 



Q. What is your business ? A. I am an inventor and 

 manufacturer of writing machines. 



Q. Are you the inventor of the Yost typewriting ma- 

 chine ? A. I am at least one of them. 



Q. Have you ever used WilHam Eadam's Microbe- 

 Killer? A. I have. 



Q. What were your symptoms and condition of your 

 health at the time ? A. I had dyspepsia very bad. I 

 had the most terrific headaches, lasting from one to 

 three days, and then I had a good deal of catarrh 

 trouble. 



Q. How long have you been suffering from those dif- 

 ficulties ? A. About ten or twelve years. 



Q. Had different physicians ? A. I had. 



Q. Did you get any better under medical treatment t 

 A. Well, at times I think my stomach trouble, head- 

 ache, and catarrh increased. 



Q. How long did you use Radam's Microbe-Killer ? 

 A. Almost continually for a year and a half. 



Q. Now, won't you describe to the jury your symp- 

 toms, condition, and progress under this treatment ? A. 

 Well, I can only say generally that the longer I used it 

 the better my health was, until a few months ago I got 

 feeling so well that I did not use it at all. 



Q. About how many jars or jugs of this microbe-killer 

 have you used altogether ? A. Somewhere between 

 twenty-five and thirty- five; I cannot tell exactly, for the 

 reason that other members of the family kept using it 

 occasionally. 



Q. Have you ever experienced any injurious effects 

 from it ? A. Certainly not. 



Cross-examined by defendants' counsel : 



Q. Was not the cause of your sickness from over- 

 work? A. Hardly; because I had been sick for a good 

 many years before that. 



Q. Do you regard yourself at the present time as com- 

 pletely cured and as sound and well ? A. I do. 



