A PHILANTHROPIC MARQUISE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 3

A PHILANTHROPIC MARQUISE.

.' The i Marquise do\MacMa^jon, has,just established iii!Paris'.a:;free dispensary to bring Rene 'Quinton's sea-jvater treatment withiji the reach','of this'poor.; 1 Quinton, .a'painstaki ing •..biologist,'; ,;.'has <• discovered , tliat many skin '' 5 troubles '■ 'and •« other bailments' can ■; be. cured'; by : subcutaneous': • injections.!. of ■ ■ sea water, sterilised and diluted. ■■ ■ In 'a lecture: at. tho Sorbonna, •'ho showed k photographs .'.of' babies with' faces covered'with, eciema;: which, wholly ldisappeared j after: a few; applications of the V Tuberculosis' and' many. other-'ills a're,said- to be helped: .Eighty ]ier: cent. ; l '..of. :; the children thus s treated for .iii-' testirial. troubles- recover, a/noteworthy..fact,, since in France have been, dying eVery.iyoar from, gastro-enteritis. Quin-. 'ton as: h'ad/.a 'hard: battle; :he lwas at;; first' laughed"' to ■ ,'scorn • by. .the '■ doctors; '-.but ; the value of. .the' sea-water ..treatment, is -said : to. be now ..geiiorally accepted in France. The. Marquise do MacMahon, who has started the dispensary-at, heriown. jexpehsp, </,is by a number* of. young .society women- wh'o' give their-.help as -volunteer: nurses-to ; thoi skilled physicians' in charge,' the doctors also Contributing their -v services.',-; The; ' Marquise is " interested Jn : politics; .even-to the degree of taking part .in; street demonstrations;. Sheis' president. or the - "League ; of.:' FrenchwojoliticaF organisation; 'is,a fervent Catholic,-; aii,d; famous 'for-,flier 'maiiy . chari-; ."jluvrecoghition ;of 1 her benevolence,' the, butclie.rs -'of ' the town of ; Limoges have .made her an honorary'member of their guild..;:; lately, visited;'the sea-water dispensary,' .was*';much ■ impressed,Varid will . try';to; start/one,' like; it! in Scotland,:.; ' She 'is reported "as saying,' . "It, will-be, a' hard 'task, for, our doctors ..are even . mbrp; 1 conservative'; than yours., but I hope to succeed." ■;■' .