SEAWATER A CURE-ALL
FRENCH BACTERIOLOGIST MAXES AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY ABOUT IT. The popular belief in the curative and constructive efficacy of sea water is confirmed by the researches of the young bacteriologist Rene Quinton, who has discovered that in all superior forms of animal life, man included, the liquid in which all the internal organs are perpetually bathed is chemically identical with sea water slightly diluted. He deduces from this that animal life was first formed in the sea. Even animals habituated to water contain as a necessity of 'life % sea water from which theyi are fifrst nourished and vitalised. The peculiar power of sea water is derived from the 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 sea water, administered either as a draught wJ>y cutaneous in^tfon,^ * >% .
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 2
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