The record-union., 1898-11-17
OLIVE OIL AS A FOOD.
ITS HIGH NUTRIENT AND
MEDICAL PROPERTIES.
Valuable Facts Cleaned by Secre-
tary Le1ong OF the State
Board of Horticulture.

secretary B. M. Lelong of the State
Board of Horticulture has recently
gathered some very important facts
concerning the benefits of olive oil as
a. food and medicine.
The Record Union has already
published a complete synopsis Of Mr.
Lelong report to the Governor, show
ing the area devoted to olive culture IN
this State, the annual crop, the prob
able cheapening of the product, etc,
but there is a wide field of usefulness
heretofore but little known. Few peo-
pie understand the value of olive OIL
as an essential food, and fewer still
understand the extent to which inJur1-
Gus authorizations are sold in the open
markets of the State.
Mr.. Lelong is doing everything in his
power to further legislation that will
throw difficulties in the way of per-
sons who sell spurious oils. 1t is the
opinion of those who have given most
study to the question that, until there
is a Federal law on the subject of i'm
pure foods something like the oleo-
margarine law, the best thing that can
be done in California is to pass law
that will make it a crime to sell i'm
pure goods under a false label. In
other words, each grocer will be amen
able to prosecution for selling adultel-
ated goods under a label that asserts
purity. This will force wholesalers and
manufacturers to see to the purity of
their goods or lose customers. The
Pure Food Association and many we'll
known business men are in full SYM
pathy with the proposed legislation.
for they see that nothing of value can
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son of many conflicts with interstate
questions. These would not arise un-
der the proposed label law.
Tt is said that when the masses shall
fully understand the many benefits of
olive oil it will materially aid the mar
kets, redounding to the benefit of Cali
fornia in particular.
DR.. E. A Osborne, superintendent Of
the California Training School for
Feeble Minded Children. has just is
sued a report wherein he states with
great particularly of detail the benefi-
cent results that have accrued from
the treatment of hundreds of children
with pure olive oil. These patients have
suffered from all sorts of diseases. In
nearly every instance great improve
ments have been noted whether the oil
was used internally as both medicine
and food or whether it was used as
an emOlient in dressings. He says it
is a household remedy at the home.
the staff of the medical aids. 1t is to
medicine what bread is to the bill of
fare of every home After giving many
interesting cases in DETAIL DR.. Osborne
concludes as follows: =
"First-It stands unrivaled as an ele-
ment Of natural food
'Second-It is unsurpassed as rem
dy in most, and probably in all vast
ing diseases where it relieves the stom-
ach rests overtaxed digestive organs,
lubricates infiamed alimentary tracts
and arrests their further congestion,
satisfies most all demands of the sys-
tenn for a concentrated heat-producfng
food, and restores to a wornout or
broken-down tissue just such elements
of repair as its reconstruction de-
mands
"Third-It possesses a direct altera-
tive effect in constitutional diseases.
''Fourth-It exerts a distinctive inf1u-
ence upon the liver, and apparently.
also, upon the kidneys. The benefits
to be derived from olive oil in liver de-
rangements are not at all chimerical.
"Fifth-Its reconstructive properties
follow its external application quite as
readily as when given internally, and
in some cases the former seems to be
preferred
1.-The medical profession then, has
deep interest in the culture of the
olive tree, and the fostering, to the
utmost perfection, of the industry of
preparing a positively pure oil, such
as may be placed in everybody's hands
without prejudice and without mis-
representation" Physicians have the
same right to demand an absolutely
unadulterated oil as they have to de-
mand pure. quinine, pure morDhia, or
any other drug, chemical, or remedy.
But the sick they who. suffering, need
its balm, and would be the grateful
recipients of its priceless virtues, have
the strongest plea to enter at the bar
of justice against its contamination
and substitution"
In the concluding part of his report
the doctor shows the great superiority
of olive over cod liver oil in such
wasting diseases as consumption. He
shows that most of the so-called cod
liver oil is an abominable adulteration,
Just as most of the so-called olive oil
is innocent of the oil of olives But
he concludes that if the real California
olive oil is used it is even better than
the purest cod liver oil, for the latter
is at best an unpalatable animal pro-
duct with a strongly noxious. fishy
taste Tt overtaxes the digestive juices
and clogs the stomach. while olive oil,
being a sweet and delicious vegetable
product. is absorbed by the system
ane goes at once to the upbuilding of
Vvornout tissues
1t is the dissemination of such in
formation as this that will induce peo-
ple to try olive oil. Like the use of
celery. asparagus and many other
things. olive oil, or the olive oil taste
is acquired by habit.
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