Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-11-10
SEA WATER AS CURE.
EFFICACIOUS IN THE EARLY
STAGES OF CONSUMPTION.
According to French Investigators
It Contains ALI the Ele-
ments of the HUI
man Body.

Paris.-A broad philosophical con-
ception, corroborated, moreover, by !
physiological research, has enabled M. |
Quinton to regard sea water as a
veritable normal center for living be- |
ings. So that according to the most
recent analysis our organism resem-
bles simple salt water aquarium,
wherein the cells Of which it is. COM
posed continue to live under conditions
of aquatic origin. The idea is all the
more interesting from the fact that it
is based on minute analysis and close
chemical studies, whence it appears
that all the elements of the human
body, even those of which only traces
exist, are to be found in their integri-
ty in sea water.
These views, which were developed
by M. Quinton last year in bulky
volume, were the prelude to their ap-
plication to therapeutics, which, as
sisted by Robert Simon, he has just
commenced. These two savants, pass
ing from theory to practice, have at
tempted to use sea water in the treat
ment of certain conditions character
iHS~ ~ IAlO uCScy VI IisS DGS1ll-
ming with the cure of tuberculosis, the
healing of which is all the more
urgent alike from it's widespread ex-
tension and the powerlessness of sci
ence to combat it.
After reducing sea water to isotony,
that is to say, reducing it's free saline
by contact with pure water to per
1,O00-the only proportion in which the
| tissues of the body can bear contact
with it without eterioration-they
| sterilized it "a froid'' and Injected it
i beneath the skin once every four days,
| in doses of so to 800 cubic centimeters.
| This treatment applied to Is tubercu-
losis subjects within the last few
| months gave three failures and Is
cases of improvement.
| The rapid improvement that result
ed began with the general condition.
the injection of isotonic sea water re-
vived the appetite, restored sleep as
we'll as the vital force, and diminished
the coughing, splitting and night
sweating. At the same time the le-
sions were improved to such an ex-
tent as to be discernible by auscula-
tion and percussion. Another proof
of restoration was the diminution of
bacilli in the saliva.
Finally The weight of the patient in
creased from day to day with regular
ity-on an average of 27 grams per
day. In some cases the gain was
considerably more, averaging SO and
43 grams, and even as much as SO
grams.
The beneficial results obtained by
the sea water cure, even in the middle
of the winter, in patients free in their
movements, several of whom went to
work, compares favorably with the
fine results of the sea water cure, at
Arachon, for example. where out of
29 cases selected from 1872, in which
improvement was recorded, B. LaI
esque certified that the average gain
in weight was 32.G1 grams per day.
Such really encouraging statistics,
which were communicated to the
Academy Of Medicine at one of it's re-
cent meetings, give ground for hop
ing that the treatment may become
more general and that we may soon
know whether sea water in the hands
of other practitioners will give res It's
to be compared with those ALREADY at
tanned by Rene Quinton and Robert
Simon In the meantime it will be
prudent to reserve Judgment, fo- so
many treatments have from time to
time appeared on the medical stage,
giving rise to the greatest hope, but
unfortunately have met with only an
ephemeral success.