Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-15
OLIVE OIL.

| Under the heading, "Some therapeu-
tic uses OF olive oil, n late issue of the
Medical Record has the following:
AT the seventh annual meeting of
the Association of Military Surgeons of
the United States, Or. NJ. o. Terry.
surgeon-ge of the national guard
of this state. read n brief but interest
ing paper on the treatment of Appendix
citis by means of sweet oil. He said
that for more than five years he had
been treating appendicitis on an non>
surgical plan, with the result that out
OF forty-fivc patients only two required
operation and all recovered. The meth
cd OF treatment is simplicity itself
consisting in the exhibition at once of
cathartic. together with the giving of
colon or high enema, Concentrations
with 1laxseed poultices. and applica-
tions of hot sweet oil, the prolonged
use OF sweet oil taken internally, and
pultaceous diet" The choice of
cathartic, DIR. Terry says Is immateri-
al although his own experience has led
him to use castor oil and sweet oil COM
bined. one part of the former to two
of the latter. a high injection of from
one-half to one pint of sweet oil Is
given, and followed by an enema of
soapsuds. Sweet oil is also given in
ternally in the dose of one-half ounce in
glass Of hot water three times n day
This IL continued as long as there is
any tenderness in the region OF the APP
pendlx
while DR.. Terry was thus iniuring
the business Of the surgeons in New
York state. DR.. owen F.. Paget was
spelling that of the undertakers in
western Australia, by means OF the
same gentle remedy. This writer, in a
communication to The Lancet of No
Nember p, 1897. advocates the use of
n in hla tF.a,
fever During his residence in Free
mantle. he says. IT was his lot to at
tend over one hundred patients suffer-
ing from typhoid fever under the most
dlsadvnntageous circumstances. many
OF them being unable to obtain even
fresh milk; yet he did not lose n case.
Among the patients removed to the
hospital, where they were properly at
tended to, We're placed under orthodox
treatment. and received suitable nour-
ishment. the percentage OF mortality
was twenty in one year and eleven in
another. While admitting the element
OF chance to a certain extent, DIR. Pager
attributed his success very largely 10
the use of sweet oil. This he gave in
the form of an enema every twelve or
twenty-four hours during the first four
or hVe days. about one-half pint being
used each time. After the fifth dav
sne injection may be given every two
'''s pN hiS'OilllHutu tntlrplv
II the temperature is steadily falllns
ana II the patient is having a natural
movement of the bowels every dav
sometimes the injections must be sun
piemented by the use of oil by tho
mouth. Dr. Paget's endeavor ia 10
keep the bowel flushed, using salad oil
Tor TINS purpose; but the principle OF
his treatment Is precisely the same as
That OF the ellminatiye method Of Dr
ihlstle; OF Toronto described in the
Medical Record of March 10, 1894.
IN the closing paragraph of this pa-
per, pr Paget remarks. in unconscious
corroboration of DIR. Terry, that salad
on, one pint by the mouth and one half
pint per rectum. has also given the
typhlitls under my care And this ro-
minds us that we have CHANGED 10 see
no reports recently of the use of Olive
OIL IN the treatment of gall stones Has
the practice gone out of use, or is 4,
SO common that no one thinks instances
oil 1t are worthy of record?"