The natural way of doing things is always the proper way to do them. The freedom of the fluids of the body to insures the individual against diseases of all sorts. The unimpinged and non-exhausted nervous system throughout the furnishes, of all things, the surest immunity against diseases. The absolute results of this method of relieving human suffering commend it to one and all it is so simple and easily understood that all may appropriate it - use it. The use of disinfectants constitute an essential element in the treatment of catarrh and all mucous membrane because the exudate is more or less infectious, and contact with healthy tissue sooner or later influences it for evil - by what we call catalysis.
Salt is the best disinfectant known, and the least harmful of all known to mankind.
Three-fourths of the surface of the earth is covered with a strong solution of this wonderful health restorative agent, and almost everything else has been resorted to that inventive genius could devise and fraudulent schemers could concoct to deceive the deluded sufferers. The first, the best, and only natural remedy, as a local application, is salt, in various strengths of solution, snuffed up the nostrils, and back through the posterior nares into the throat, or forced there by a spray instrument in the form of a nebulizer, which may be purchased at any drug store. The strength should be in the proportion of one tablespoonful of common table salt to one pint of water. This solution should be used three or four times at a sitting, and three or four times each day. The patient should be instructed to use considerable force in driving this up into the nostrils each time.