New-York tribune., 1907-09-01
SEA WATER FOR HEALTH
The Ne7o Method of Injecting 1t
Under the Skin Erpounded.

The medical world the water and the
general public well greatly interested in the
new sea water treatment.
Dispensaries have been opened in Paris for the
treatment of tuberculosis enteritis, cholera in
fantum etc, and the results in the of these
maladies and of others have been extremely en-
couTaging.
ton" 1t is merely the injection under the skin
of sea water mixed with little fresh water and
steriized with special precaution. the number Of
the injections varying much according the
THE originator of the method is M Rene Quin-
ton and its basis is entirely biological and scien
tiic. formulated in book which NJ. Qun-
ton published in 1904 under the title of Il Eau de
Mer Milieu Organque' The fundamental idea is
this: All existing animal life is derived from
simpler and more primitive organisms The ear
Hest organisms. simple. isolated elementary cells
were born in the water The first organisms were
aquatic for unicellular organisms stin most
abundant in the water the land being i'll adapted
to their existence. They must have been marine
creatures for fresh water is more recent dc
veiopment than salt. There had to be extended
continents before rivers and lakes possible
Finally these organisms must have had their
birth in water less salt than the sea water Of
to-day. for the primitive seas were less salty than
those of the historic period.
''AH living things moreover even the most high
" developed. stil begin their existence in a me-
dum which is liquid and marine. The egg is 4
unicelular organism which lives and only
live in saline liquids And afterward, in the i'm
nense majority of cases. at least the same con-
dtion continues. At whatever period of life they
are considered or. however highly developed they
may be, organisms continue TO live in an aquatic
and saline medium. This is astonishing state
ment. but there Is nothing fantastic about II.
Those organisms which have become adapted 20
fresh water and the more highly developed ones
which have left the water and become inhabitants
of the earth and the air-insects. certain crus-
taceans reptiles, butrachians. birds. mammals.
man hinself-aII continue in the great majority of
cases live in salt water.
How can this be? 1t is very simple In what
medium do the cells of these organisms live?
In LIQUID medium, In the blood and In the
lvmph in the serum. which is between the cells
and in II
dun, for the and the lymph are salty
Iin1,ids not merely solutions containing ordinary
salt but veritabe water. with nearly, II not
0Iite all the chemical elements which are found.
often in infinitesimal quantities, in the water or
the sea In the blood found silicium. IRON
fiuorne. iodine. bromine. manganese. copper. lead
zinc silver. lithum, arsenic. boron. barium. alumni
num- stantium,- calcium gold, cobalt. phosphorus
potassium soda magnesia. lime. chlorine, sulphur,
carbon etc. The probabilities that all elements
will be found in water and also in the vital
fluid of all organisms
The researches OF NJ. Quinton bring out the
fact heretofore ignored, that the body of the
bird and that Of the mammal. terrestrial and aerial
organisms though they be, live. in reality, In sea
water. The only difference between them and ma
rine organisms that the medium which is ex-
terror TO the body in one case is interior In the
other. Each OF us is a walking marine aquarium.
Instead of having the around US II is in us
Animals which live IN the have naturally, and
whether they will no. a certain vital medium,
the water of the sea. Non-aquatic animals make
this vital marine medium in n sense voluntarily
by selection Of the chemical elements which their
superior organisms is constituted and maintained
against and in spite Of alimentation. which with
ont the selection exercised by the physiologic
forces would constitute naturally very different
medium. II IS as though the superior organisms
remembered their primitive medium, and having
imperious need OF il maintained it In fact the
maintenance in spite OF great difficulties of this
marine medium is general that t might be
spoken Of as a law. the law Of the persistence OF
the original marine medium.
Such is the fundamental idea Of NJ Quinton's :
book 1t is easy now to understand the theory Of
the sea water treatment Physiology shows us
that the vital medium of the immense majority Of
creatures Is sea water. the less concentrated sea
water which existed at the time when life first
made It's appearance upon the earth. 1t
enable to ask. therefore. If in many disease
does gain foothold in our bodies account
of the weakening chemical modification of the
vital medium, and then on this hypothesis every
thing points the possibility of revitaliZing the
organism by injecting into it water altered in
it's composition to render Ii identical. far
as possible with the less concentrated water of
the seas in which life began. The proposition is
reasonable. and the central idea OF the sea water
treatment Is very biological, very interesting and
very Gefensible'