The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-29

~, and gently rubbed for q quarter of an
hour, until the temperature of the body
subsidies The final rubbing before the
bather is sent 10 his couch takes away
the last vestige Of the OH and leaves the
skin all over the body. glistening as if
polished.
Il apply the oil in this systematic man
ner.' said Prof Pnytel, "for these rea-
sons: The first application clears away all
cutaueOus excrescence or dirt and gives
the capillary circulation chance. The
second insures the introduction of the oil
to the capillary system, and that means
the implanting of new life and strength
therein.
From that point It is taken up and
the body Is given a force named heat in a
single bath it could not get out of food
in the most careful dietary of a whole
week"
1t seems that Prof. PSayteI who Is a
Frenchman, as his name would imply,
had his first experience in the olive oil
massage at San Francisco. He is author
ity for the assertion that the New York
bath, which is said to be doing wen, was
founded by another graduate of the same
unique Hammam, about year ago. The
San Francisco bath, he says, is about two
years old. and was started by a Turkish
bath expert and masseur, to whose atten-
ton had been called the curious fact that
in Southern California resided any num-
Der of hardy old men, ranging in years
from so TO 105, who claimed to have ex-
tended their lives and preserved their
health by bathing at least once week
with olive oil, which is abundant and
cheap in that section. ftt
An investigation along this line satisfied
the Turkish bath man that the Roman
scraping method could be improved upon
by the modern massage, and the olive oil
bath made an institution both original and
profitable. Within tWn wears the San
Francisco bath has prospered greatly and
of late has been used by physicians sue
cessfully as an auxiliary therapeutic agent
In great number of obstinate cases.
Prof. Playtel is hopeful that his little
beginning may eventuate similarly: that
the olive oil massage may not become a
fad with a few select patrons but attract
the cooperative interest of the medical
profession.
1t is curious that the virutes of olive oil
should be understood so vaguely, or, as is
the case with most persons not at all
While of incaTculable value in therapeutics
its use in this particular has been revived
within the present century. In ancient
times it was a well-recognized preventive
of the plague-not by any means the least
of its merits.
The latest modern to introduce the olive
oil bath, by rubbing the whole surface of
the body, for the treatment of eruptjve
1t successfully to the King of Hanover In
the SOS. 1t Is the best of palliatives for
scarlet fever. 1t likewise allays the swell
ing of the stings and bites of insects
Among peasantry of Europe, it is given
effectively, internally and externally to
eradicate the poisonous effects of the
6tings of vlpers. With lime water IL makes
an excellent liniment for burns Given
with per cent. of olive acid IL will
check the progress of pulmonary phthiss
Olive oil is effective in lessening the
pain and swelling Of enlarged glands, par
tichlarly when they are engorged. Emf
nent authorities have experimental with
it recently and found it a potent agent
for many defects of the excretory ducts
especially the skin. Such an obstinate dis
ease as eczema has rapidly disappeared
upon a discontinuance of starchy foods
and the substitution of a der of fresh and
dried fruits. milk. egg and olive Oil
Its beneficial effects when taken an con-
junction with fruit diet frequently have
been marked upon the hair, nails and
scalp. It supplies to the sebaceous glands
the only substance they secrete when in
healthy condition, the absence of which
causes debility of the hair, often ending in
badness.
1t is observed that those who regularly
take olive oil as a common article of food
are generally healthier and in better condi-
ton than those who do not As a matter
of fact olive oil is destructive to certain
formes of micro-organic life, and il is rea-
sonable to suppose that they can be best
eradicated from the system by it's inter-
nal use The oil does not kill the mi
crobes, but it restores to the diseased tbs
sues upon which they trive the elements
required for heslthful reconstruction.
In factr-it is astonishing, when one gets
to marking down the good things olive
oil does for the human system. For ex-
ample, 1t is an anudote for cantharides
and other irritant poisons, such as car
bolic, surphuric and hypdrochloric acids.
Large doses of it viii discharge gan
stones. A case is recorded Of no less than
629 calcute having been relased after the
patient had taken total of twenty-six
and a half ounces of olive OIL
The secret Of tins action is said to lie in
the fact that gan stones are saponaceous,
and the olive oil acts as a disintegratiug
and discharging agent. In such instances,
olive oil may be taken agreeabIy as an
emulsion, prepared with the yelk of an egg
and a dash of peppermint.
THE SPEED OF BIRDS.