SEA WATER A CURE-ALL
■IFRENCH BACTERIOLOGIST MAKES AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY ABOUT IT. The popular belief in the curative and constructive efficacy ol sea water is confirmed by the researches of i Inyoung bacteriologist Rene Ouinton, who has discovered that in till superior forms of animal life, man included, the liquid in which all I be internal organs are perpetually bathed is chemically identical with sea water slightly diluted. lie deduces from this thai animal life was lirsi formed in the sea, Even animals habituated to fresh water contain as a necessity of life sell water from which they, are first nourished and vitalised. The peculiar power of sea wafer- is derived from Hie'fact that it practically contains every chemical element known, from gold to potassium. The animal organism is a sort of sea water aquarium in motion, and disorder or feebleness in the organs may mean simply that the aquarium liquid is beneath the proper strength or improperly proportioned. Children are especially susceptible, and at the Maternity Hospital the premature or weakly are soon brought to sturdy health by treatment with Kea water, administered either as a draught or by cutaneous injection.
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Lake County Press, Issue 2136, 20 September 1906, Page 7
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