PARAFFIN OIL AS A REMEDY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2170, 8 June 1914, Page 8

PARAFFIN OIL AS A REMEDY

M«cli Ins appeared in the Press of recent months on. the virtues of Purified Paraffin for internal use, and chemists report that a strong demand 'has set in awl that daetors arc iffescribiag it suc-(KS'-fully. Jt is claimed for purified paraffin that it is simply a -ptiro lubricaiit'tliat caimot be ab*orbed into the system, and so it relieves constipation and its allied ills without upset tijig His patient or weakening the natural dteestive fluids, -This means raueh, te foiH in the habit of using Jiflrinftd iwrsatives. The. "British Pha'i'mrtcetttieal Journal'' in a tottfit is« SttP says:—

"Liquid paraffin /has been -used in toilet preparations and imisi! medication far sonw years; but its use for internal purposes is of qsiiie feeent. date. The eminent surgeon. Sir William A. Lane, who it will he remembered attended H.KJf. the Duchess of Connmight recently, and whose fame for abdominal surgery has spread over the whole world, was the first, I believe, t« popularise its hsd for internal purposes, niid explain its real action. ]'"roni biiyinjr one of -two gallons a ymr tins London hospitals! arc contracting for the wrpply of hundreds of gallons, name; it for out-txitients and in-patiehb. Tt is in great demand «1.-o by medical men tfteiiisclvcs. Its TCTtilsr action on the intcstinpii as a lulivifatiws oil has been responsible for this increased demand. Bo many of our ills are due to constipation, or lack of muscular tone in the intestines, as well ns overcrowding . of the. bacterial content nf the lowev towel, find the'consequent autn-intoxication produced. From fhii; anto-ititoxicatioii aviso those drill headiiijlie? oiwo called, 'liver' and what arc popularly described as nvosenlar rheumatic pains, while i'nmimeratts cases-'of sci-minsly severe rheumatism have- been vapidly cured by purified paraffin. Its lubricating action on the main' tract o? .'the 'intestine*. of w'iiieh w? nof:?Pss n.hcmt thirty feet, lias '■ its many advantage's. When one cansMrM thejni-g* -riavt that the digestion and absorption of food after it lias left the stomach nbvs in regard to our hnHh and comfort, it- is easy to sea a subSitaßce m liquid Sattvffin is of with sf«t use. The normal time for food fc> slay in ths alimentary cApal is thirty hours. There* have hesii numerous instances of a meal talcing sis or seven days to pass when experiments have been c-Mdueted with bismuth, Thefe casts, when purified , paraffin was used, in the course of a week, «r two sradusllv cania down to one hundred, eishtv. sixty, then forty and thirty hours, showing the nation in a very simple TffiV." ~ It is essential of course to use an ml of the ristht soeciflfl jirriivity and purity. Tlin*"i who wish to try the paraffin tveatment will Pad that an analysed .wl-tv-st-erl brand, issued under an analyst's »?- tificflle for mirift. is »'lverti«ed in Hit" issue under th« title of "Bed C, Paraffin" (specially purified oil for interna! u»).