St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
Saw Treatment In. q Dream

Sims gave instructions for dollar
to be drawn into a wire that had the
thinness of coarse thread; and with
this thread of silver he was able to,
complete successfully his difficult OPP
Grafton, thereby banithing hitherto
incurable disease, and establishing
new era in American surgery.
In an equally extraordinary manner
came the first hint to its originator of
what has come to be known in the
medical world as the oil treatment in
enteric cases, which include appendi-
citis and typhoid. BY originating this
treatment DR.. M. O. Terry gained
worldwide notoriety. Yet until now
it has never been published how he
got the germ of the idea that caused
him to promulgate his famous treat
ment
1T was a curious experience, verg-
ing on the weird, almost, that first led
me to the study of medical suficiency
of oil in the treatment of many kinds
of enteric diseases, especially ap-
pendicitis," said DR.. Terry.
w DIS VEL lOuu VI OAlFC anu GILL
yet-and it was my custom after a
day spent in the hospitals and in fol-
lowing my private practise, to eat a
handful of olives, with a few crack
ers on the side, before going to bed.
Frequently, l was careless and left
the bottle Of olives uncorked, so that
when l went again to it l usually
found the contents incrusted with a
sort of scum, and the olives them
selves turned sour.
We'll, one night, after hard days
work, including two very difficult OPP
erations, fell into sound sleep.
And a dream came to me. 1t was as
vivid as though l were awake. And
in it l was told that If, after opening
a bottle of olives, l would pour upon
| the water in which the olives were
packed in the bottle enough oil COM
pletely to cover the water, would
have no further difficulty about my
| olives souring.
Furthermore, I was told the philo-
sophy of this. If you pour oil into
| the bottle it was said to me in the
dream, 1t will float upon the top OF
the water, it will make an absolutely
impervious coating. No germs from
the air can penetrate it. 1t will
smother all germs, for that is the
quality of OIL Therefore, your olives
will be protected
II awoke, and reached out to my
night table, which always stood by
my bed, and made brief note in my
note book Then I went to sleep again
"In the morning I discovered the
note upon my table, and l said: TO
night l will make the experiment.
did so, and found that what had been
said to me In the dream was true
The olives were perfectly protected
from all germs.
Nov, that set me thinking. l rea
soned that if oil were taken into di
gestive organs, 1t would thoroughly
| insulate them-prevent attacks upon
them by bacteria; or, If attack had
been made, it would smother the
forces of illness. I soon had an op
portunity to make test of my newly
formed theory, in the case of child
who was dangerously i'll, and, to my
qualification, l found it worked per
fectly. Then l developed the theory
to extend it to typhoid fever, and es
pecially to appendicitis; and it ii
through my advocacy Of the oil treat
ment in the cases Of appendicitis thai
have not yet reached the acute stage
with pus formed-when the knife II
the only remedy-that l have gained
professional advocates and opponents
pretty much over the civilized world.
copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. Al
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