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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 148, 11 October 1876, Page 2

The Paris "Medicale discusses ] treatment of obesity by the adniinistrati of sea-water combined with a residence the sea-side. Sea-water, taken internal acts like diuretic and purgative salts; remarkable fact being that the diure effect increases when the purgative dim ishes. The water should be obtain' when possible from some depth, and '• from the shore. .It is then to be lefi settle for six to twelve hours, and filter* It is to be taken three time a day-in dff of a small tumbler glassful, or in half tl quantity at a time with fresh water milk. It is stated as a. fact that sea-vra' thus used facilitates the oxygenation of j blood, and that it hastens the. eliminat" of effete materials. In .combmation * this treatment sea-water batbju aie if>] taken, free exercise is to be carried o ( and at the same' time fattening' foods J to be avoided. Cases which have resist* other measures have been known to yM to this treatment.