The renewal of life : arguments for subcutaneous injections of oil in the cure and prevention of senility and disease; for the making of the acme of abundant health, stamina, vigor, vitality and constitution; for the cure of consumption and other diseases, particularly those of a chronic nature / by Thos. Bassett Keyes.

  • Keyes, Thomas Bassett.
Date:
1909-10
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Credit: The renewal of life : arguments for subcutaneous injections of oil in the cure and prevention of senility and disease; for the making of the acme of abundant health, stamina, vigor, vitality and constitution; for the cure of consumption and other diseases, particularly those of a chronic nature / by Thos. Bassett Keyes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diagnosis, clironic pulmonary tuberculosis of a favor- able condition to treat. Diagnosis confirmed by micro- scopical findings in the sputum. When beginning treatment his temperature was 98, pulse 92, weight 117 pounds, his normal weight being 128 pounds. This patient was treated for one month daily excepting Sun- day, with one ounce injections of oil and a liberal diet of fats. He made a gain of six pounds and seemed in good health, and has since remained well. With many of these cases it requires constant train- ing for several months to a diet of fats before these fats will be assimilated, and until then we cannot dis- continue the treatment with subcutaneous injections of oil with safety. As to whether these patients remain well and free from any symptoms of tuberculosis all depends upon their maintaining this habit of assimi- lating oils, by not letting a meal go by in which a liberal quantity of fat in some form is eaten. All of the above cases have been free from the symptoms of the disease tuberculosis since they have stopped treatment, the time varying from four years to three months in the latter cases. Case XXV. Mr. E. E. D., of Chile, Wis. I report this case in full because it shows the wonderful cura- tive action of the injections of oil, and while this case died of pneumonia, he was cured of the tubercular condition of the lungs. It is one of the saddest experi- ences I have had in the practice of medicine, for he had no symptoms of tuberculosis at the time he contracted pneumonia and it seemed that he could go home a cured man. It was not a tubercular pneumonia that he contracted, but a typical acute pneumonia. The following is a copy of my chart history of tlie case: