Turtle Oil.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2054, 5 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Turtle Oil.

Turtle oil is "auggeited ftjfca fjib'hl&t 6 *& cod liveriqjll. Tie oil' is of^«^ w 'M^ o M? and at the ordinary. temprt£|&ts in this country forms a think, finely dHM" fim(1 ' in consisteLC? somtjbmg liko qjpe oil partly congealed. A gentle heat renders thia oil clear and transparent. It possesses little odour or taste, and does not quiokly turn rancid. Taken in warm milk it h not bo objectionable as cod liver oil. Mr. E. M. Holmes, in the Pharmaceutical Journal. '! Mr. J. H. Brooks informs me that the oil is obtained from the fat of the reptile by boiling, and not from tho eggs. Concerning its use in medioine, Mr. Brooks adds, "I have for some twenty years employed tattle oil with the most beneficial results in all cases where ood liver oil was indicated, in persons in whom the nutritive process was defeotive, in children of itrumous disposition, in the scqucja; of scarlet fever, in measles, and other acute specific diseases. It has proved of the greatest service in aorof ulous affections of the eyes, nose, and other parts ; and has been most beneficial in ehronjic bronchitis, gout, rheumatism, and syphilitia affections : but I have'found it more particularly useful in phtbi3js pulmonalis, in. all ita stages. Turtle oil is borne well by the stomach, causing neither nauiea, eruotations, dyspepsia, nor diarrhoea. It Bhould be administered in the same.doaes as cod liver oil, eomirienring with a small dose three times a day, in any vehicle that the patient may fancy. It is also largely used in the Mauritius and 8.3union, where pulmonary diseases prevail, and is muoh preferred to ood liver oil." This animal oil, whioh keeps well, and is comparatively free from smell, should prove, with its color and non-drying properties, of great sewice in the manufacture of pomades, etc.