By a proper instrument the oil is carried into the intestines with the water used in flushing the colon, or that used with the intestinal recurrent douche treatment. The oil, being lighter than the water, is carried ahead or on top as the water passes up the bowels; and, as the two liquids open the crevices and folds of the mucous membrane or canal, every part of the latter is completely covered with the medicated oil, as with a covering of thin salve, ointment, or a poultice--in every nook and corner, just where it is most needed and where it should remain for its hygienic and healing effect. Every kindly aid should be given a diseased organ, mucous membrane, or the skin, even if one knows it is for relief only; for the very aids that give relief are often essential when joined with medicinal or other treatment in effecting a cure. It is advantageous in treating bowel troubles to use a rather heavy, tenacious oil for a base--one that may not be so pleasant to swallow or to use externally as some of the lighter oils. It is therefore advisable to have two kinds of Depurant Oil: one for internal use (by the mouth) and for the skin, the other for chronic disease of the lower bowel. _INTESTINAL ILLS._ _By Alcinous B. Jamison, M.D._, SPECIALIST IN RECTAL, ANAL, AND BOWEL DISEASES, AND AUTHOR OF “HOW TO BECOME STRONG.” _Cloth, 277 pages_ The above is the title of a work for non-professional readers on the cause and cure of many forms of bowel and stomach trouble, and their consequences, and the scientific treatment of piles, fistula, pruritus ani (itching), etc. Science is here reduced to common sense; and the intelligent layman, following the directions of this book, especially as to “physiological irrigation,” will be able to prevent the usual daily foul state of the stomach and bowels. Here is set forth in plain language the accumulated experience of a thoughtful physician, who for over thirty years has studied the welfare of his patients in the treatment of those diseases which are peculiar to civilization. During this long practise, patients from all parts of the United States and other countries have come to New York City to be under the humane and skilful care of Dr. Jamison, who has the unique reputation of never employing the barbarous surgical and hospital methods in vogue throughout the world. No knife, ligature, clamp, or cautery has ever been employed by him in the treatment of even the most aggravated case of piles, or hemorrhoids; and no detention from business is necessary under his treatment for this symptom of proctitis. Dr. Jamison’s discoveries in the line of his specialty have added much to medical knowledge concerning the etiology and pathology of proctitis, sigmoiditis, and of their symptoms--hemorrhoids, pruritus ani, constipation, etc. His diagnosis of these afflictions is original, as well as his treatment of such ailments--hitherto neglected or improperly cared for.