BAT MORE SALT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 244, 14 October 1891, Page 4

BAT MORE SALT.

Dr. Burggraeve, a learned professor of the University of Ghent, has just published a remarkable work, ia which he endeavours to prove that anybody who will take the tronble to follow his instructions may become a centenarian. His system is merely a system of I'enovation, and is simplicity itself. The great panacea for all ills which he professes to have dis» covered ib salt, the rational use of which, he says, is a sure preserver of life. Ho affirms that good health is not a matter of change or constitution; the laws which regulate human life are calm and regular phenomena, and all we havo to do is to take care that they shall develop themselves without obstruction. .

According to this theory, salt is the great regulating agent. If the blood be too rich, salt will clarify, it j if the blood be too poor, salt will strengthen it, and furnish it with necessary elements. Dr. Burggraevo quoted several examples in support of the sovereign virtue which he attributes to salt.

Formerly, in Holland, the greatest punishment whioh existed for offending, soldiers was to give them unsalted bread After a few months of this regime the culprits almost unvariably died. In Saxony, at the end of the last century, a terrible epidemic reigned solely through the want of salt.

The Dutch savant furthermore assures us that salt is an infallible cure for consumption and cholera. The Eussiau peasants once saved themselves from a' plague by putting salt in their milk. He estimates that the quantity of salt whioh every adult in ordinary health should consume daily is two-thirds of an ounce, In conclusion, he asserts that if the world would only take to salt, centenarians would beeome as common as new-born babes;