MARVELLOUS CURES WITH SEA WATER.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12438, 10 April 1908, Page 7

MARVELLOUS CURES WITH SEA WATER.

Or. Quinton'* New Remedy for Many Diseases.

PARIS, January 25

For the latest and an exceptionally interesting addition to its free dispensaries Paris is indebted to a le-ading member of the aristocracy, the Marquise de MacMahon. With a beautiful Baroness as her chief assistant, the Marquise, who already ia known for her Royalist sympathies and inexhaustible charity, has thrown herself heart and soul into the work of bringing the new Quinton sea-water treatment with'n reach of the poorer classes. Mainly at her own expense she has caused a commodious dispensary to be built in the Rue d'Onessant, in the centre of the industrial Grenelle quarter, where 500 patients can be treated in the course of a morning. The opening ceremony took place without any pomp, there being present the Marquise de MacMahon, tbe Baroness de la Pinsonniere, who is famous for her good looks ; a dozen young society women, who are giving their services gratuitously ac nurses, and Dr Rene Quinton, with the members of the staff.

After seven years of patent and arduous research in his laboratory, M. Quintal came forth with the startling statement that man Js a veritable sea aquarium ; that his blood is really an oceanic liquid in which red globules bathe. All parts of our bodies • are bathed in sea water, the remains of the medium in which our ancestors lived. Every animal organism, whether worm, dog, horse, or man; is composed of sea water to ore third of its weight, of real sea water, in which all the living cells bathe and breathe, secrete and excrete. A man of 168 pounds contains 56 pounds of sea water. The sea water is the vital liquid of the organic cePs, the liquid without which life would be literally impossible. The cells constituting the organism continue to live under the aquatic conditions of their first origin, and just as in an aquarium fish life is impossible without sea water, so the life of our organic cells is impossible without this sea water of which we are constituted. . M. Quinton proved his theory by an experiment which has now become historic. He took a dog and bled it to the last drop of blood in its veins. The animal Jay <m the operating table to all appearance deafi. Then the operator injected a quantity of s<-a water eoijal to that of the blood iost, whereupon the dog revived and was soon ' running about, as though v the operation had never taken place. In his conference at the Sorbonne M. Quinton projected on the limelight screen a photograph of the dog in question, taken four years after the above experiment wasS performed. The subcutaneous injection of sea water rejuvenates and renovates our corrupted vital medium. The fatigued and poisoned cells at once resume a normal existence, being restored to their natural medium. This explains the marvellous rapidity of the results obtained in certain cases by the injection of marine plasma. In this Sorbonne lecture M. Quinton dealt solely with the cases where the results are, so to speak, instantaneous. First and foremost on the list comes athrfpsics — r-ew-born babes suffering from the ly green diarrhoea, unable to digest any food, vomiting everything, not only milk, but even water. One hour after the first injection the baby is able to take the feeding bottle, i,ho vomiting and diarrhoe; ceaau and it .-s saved. Such results arc not the exception, but the rule, for they are true of 80 per cent, of the cases. If one reflects that 70,000 children .die annually in France of gastric .enteritis, the value of the Quinton treatment is evident.

Perhaps one of - the.' most remarkable cures ol gaatric enteritis was that of a baby which was brought to the dispensary when it was practically beyond human aid. It was unable to digest even water. The age of the baby was four and a halt months, and it weighed less than at its birth. Two hours altar the first injection it was able to retain two ounces oi milk. Two days afterward its weight had increased by half a pound.., M. Quinton showed his Sorbonne audience photographs of babies whose faces were covered with eczema on their arrival at the dispensary. A few injections sufficed to restore the face to its normal condition. In treating 1 eczema it is necessary to employ only weak doses, at most thirty cubic centimeters in the.- case of an adult, and 10 in that of children.

In the case oi. patients afflicted with varicose uloers, the suffering diminishes with the first i/jection and in -some cases the ulcer eio:itmes with marvellous rapid;tv. Excellent results have also attended (he treatment applied to pulmonary tuberculosis. No Ices surprising from the point of yievv of rapidity are the results obtained in treating adults for the diftercnt maladies o: the stomach and intestines, as well as in every kind of mucomembranous enteritis and chronic, constipation. M. says that 15 per cent of the cases of tv \x co-membranous enteritis and the most obstinate intestinal sluggishness, which have resisted every treatment jind yenra of dieting, are transformed in the spaco of twenty-four houis. In other words, the 'jure is apparent from the firsi injeilion. In 70 per cent, of these case.-; the cure is apparent after the fifth o. sixth injection. Only 15 per cent, of tin cases prove refractory.

M. Quinton has opened a popular dis pensary close to the Montparnas3e station in the midst of a crowded district. Every .day for some months past you might have seen in the Rue de l'Arrivee, where the dispensary is situated, over 200 patients cross the threshold. The indigent are treated gratuitously, the others are charged iocs varying fiom 50 centimes (sd) to 2 francs (Is 8d). It may be added, in conclusion, that the dese of isotonic sea water, or Quinton plasma, employed in each injection varies from 50 to 100 cubic centimetres. In the generality of maladies the injection is made once every three days. The dispensary in the Rue de l'Arnvee opened last April with 268 patients. In August this number had increased to 1674 and in October to "4081.