The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-27
'ur OIL TREATMENT.
,saey USES IT FOR APP1N-
~ T" DlClTIS.

sat
i'. .. S.lasd to This rrsa'%sn'mDr, H. IA !,
''' =, challenge to His Statement ana
MOI" mr. rsrry's Rjoindsr'
49,, appendicitis can be erect
y, treated by medical me. means Is n "ono
Vely . % the use of the knife Is neoss,
vDe'u "ost cases is the subject OF a
ag ID mus n which the medical and
ii'e ,issI experts are at present deeply
surgical sNp No organ of the body has
pieres'e"Or a discussion or puzzlement
S'ssu , ned men than the vermiform
bno anSi is and every new suggestion as
'ppeDu .msnt for appendicitis is eagerly
% trsa' aS Consequently when DIR. Nj.
dlic GUS If Utica, surgeon general OF
,. ls Sat5ional guard of New York state,
Do Ds,i Dt pamphlet a short time ago
PUBLISH ..;nc the use Of cathartics and
sd'O0' Ill in the treatment OF this dis
'N W. sD AZ declaring that of 81 cases un-
ease s an personal supervision 40 were
di n.s handled without opera
iacOe', comments, favorable and other
Wee , a November 1890 number OF
-. Medical Times DR.. Terry defended
iD' n,octice. The treatment, as he de-
~ s;hpd i. is substantially as follows;
W., !. srst cathartics Of castor oil and
~ az, oil followed by hot water are
's WV" until the bowels are thoroughly
ssI LIAM out. This treatment is followed
!" ansmas of glycerin and sweet oil.
y.,seed poultices soaked in sweet oil
~ Don't on the abdomen. The diet is
' ~ rTt to very light. easily digested
.s0ds The oil treatment, DIR. Terry
~. romoyes the friction OF the in
ssmad tissues and relaxes them during
l,ssolution. In this way, he says, he has
,ured cases of chronic recurrent appendi-
etis Toprevent return OF the trouble
.ttsr the original treatment he pre-
.ribes a tablespoonful of sweet oil. fol-
lowed by glass Of hot water. before
zach meal for several weeks.
His statements have been sharply
challenged by DR.. Robert P. Morris of
New York, an eminent authority upon
.nnendicitis and q warm advocate Of the
use Of the knife. In the January num-
her Of The Medical Times DR.. Morris
challenge and DR.. Terry's reply are
printed
After stating that the medical treat
uent advocated by DR.. Terry is the
most excellent / have ever seen de-
rribed" DR.. Morris continues: But
yery busy men sometimes find it diff
cult to keep track of all their cases.
When physician of DR.. Terry's promi-
nence states that 40 out of 81 cases of
appendicitis have been cured by medical
treatment assume that some Of the
men upon whom he has depended for
subsequent histories of the cases have
deceived him, and / will put my idea
In this form. If DR.. Terry will person
ally obtain report from each one Of
the 40 cured patients, / will give 81, 600
on the first day of June, 1898, to any
hospital that DR. Terry will name if he
finds that none Of these patients have
died Of appendicitis or its complications
or have subjected themselves to opera
tons for appendicitis; DR.. Terry, OH
the other hand, to give 81, 200 to the
library Of the New York Academy of
Medicine on June |, 1898, if he finds
that some of these 40 patients have died
|d appendicitis or its complications or
have subjected themselves to operation
for appendicitis.
u have no knowledge whatever of
any one of the 40 cases. but i have
made careful study of the subject of
appendicitis, and from the findings in
The analysis of 100 consecutive opera
IONS OF my own, reported in the second
edition OF my lectures ON appendicitis.
mere is evidence that more than 20 per
cent OF all appendicitis patients eventu.
ally die under medical treatment. do
Otdoubt that under the excellent med
icai treatment advocated by DR.. Terry
sHspossible to cause subsistence of the
Nute symptoms in 40 consecutive single
'''acks OF appendicitis, but that is q
very different matter from curing 40
Eases. Under the best sort of medical
ueatment appendicitis patients spend
more time in bed, suffer more and die
a'ener than they do under the best sort
surgical treatment"
N DIS reply DR.. Terry declines to ac-
~p' 'ne challenge Of the surgeon.
AS my cases are the accumulation
" w. nVe years observation" he writes,
Mwould be a most difficult matter to
SaCe out each one, owing to the changes
1'sslaehce OF some, to the fact that
! W. %ueis nave been strangers to me, and to
~ ~ oOnsuitation element entering into
w. proposition with. physicians whose
,s'As are located over widely scat
eied territory"
h. S,es.eftneless, DR.. Terry stoutly ad-
:" 70 his medical treatment, declar-
: is mat the appendix should be assisted
- Implying itself. This much abused
dssss apparently useless organ gets this
Do,. evolution is all right. but we have
n, . no great changes in the appendix
@.. ses In man, therefore we believe
% nj, 'ne Creator left it there not for the
DOSE y the surgeon. but for some pur.
ma s authorities have taken sides In