something I didn't know about the Anointing of the Sick until fairly recently

[phygelus]

As administered in the Western Church today according to the rite of the Roman Ritual, the sacrament consists (apart from certain non-essential prayers) in the unction with oil, specially blessed by the bishop, of the organs of the five external senses (eyes, ears, nostrils, lips, hands), of the feet, and, for men (where the custom exists and the

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[vakratunda]

So how do they extract oil from eyes and ears and such?

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[phygelus]

They don't extract oil in Extreme Unction, they anoint with it.

"Oil" that oozes from the tombs or relics (I'd assume primarily this means relics as in parts of corpses) of saints is used though, for other things:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11228d.htm

[baal_kriah]

It seems like now is not the time for the RCC to encourage priests to touch penises, even the penises of dying people.

[phygelus]

the "reins" is a curious circumlocution. Dictionary sez: 1. the kidneys, loins, or lower back 2. the [quotes added] "seat of the affections and passions"

But yeah.

[lhasa7]

Well, I recall reading in a book about the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations-written by a forensic pathologist, I believe-that the attending physician to Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre probably used a ‘rectal dilator’ as one means of trying to rouse him to consciousness. Evidently that was standard medical practice at the time.

[phygelus]

note that any sacramental "side effects" beyond validly conferring grace are ex opere operantis...