The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-14
SEA WATER FOR HEALTH PROPOSITION FEASIBLE The New Method of Inject ing It Under the Skin
 Expounded.


 and the general public as well are greatly interested in the new sea wa- ter treatment.
 Dispensaries have been opened in Paris for the treatment of tuberculosis, enteritis, cholera infantum. etc., and the results in the case of these mala- dies and of others have been extremely encouraging.
 "The method is very simple" says "L'Illustration." "It is merely the in- 1ection under the skin of sea water mixed with little fresh water and sterilized with special precaution, the number of the injections varying much according to the case,
 "The originator of the method is M. Rene Quinton and it's basis is entirely biological and scientific It was formu- lated in book which M. Quinton pub lished in 1904 under the title of L'Eau de Mer, Millleu Organique.' The funda- mental idea is this: All existing animal life is derived from simpler and more primitive organisms. The earliest or ganisms, simple, isolated elementary cells, were born in the water. The first organisms were aquatic, for unicellular organisms are still most abundant in the water, the land being ill-adapted 10 their existence. They must have been marine creatures, for fresh water is a more recent development than I salt There had to be extended conti- nents before rivers and lakes were pos slble Finally these organisms must l 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.
 "All living things, moreover, even the most highly developed, still begin their existence in medium which is liquid and marine. The egg is a unicel- lular organism which lives and can on- ly live in saline liquids And afterward, in the immense majority of cases at least, the same condition continues. At whatever period of life they are con- sidered or, however highly developed they may be, organisms continue to live in an aquatic and saline medium. i This Is an astonishing statement, but there is netting fantastic about it. Those organisms which have become adapted to fresh water and the more highly developed ones which have left the water and become inhabitants of the earth and the air--insects, certain crustaceans, reptiles, butrachians. birds, mammals, man himself-all con- tinue in the great majority of cases 10 i live in salt water
 "How can this be? It Is very simple. In what medium do the cells of these organisms live? In a liquid medium, in the blood and in the lymph in the serum, which is between the cells and in them--in short, in liquid saline medium, for the serum and the lymph are salty liquids, not merely solutions containing ordinary salt, but veritable sea water with nearly, if not quite, all the chemical clements which are found often in inflnitesimal quantities, In the water of the sea. In the blood are found sllicium, iron, f1uorine, odne, bromine, manganese, copper, lead, zine, silver, lithium, arsenic boron, barium, aluminium, stantlum, calcium gold, CO., bait, phosporus, potassium, soda, mag nesia, lime, chlorine, sulphur, carbon, etc. The probabilities are that all ele- ments will be found in sea water and | Ai, An1 af al | ict1t
 "The researches of M. Quinon bring out the fact, heretofore ignored, that the body of the bird and that of the mammal, terrestrial and aerial organ isms though they be, live, In reality, ir sea water. The only difference between them and marine organisms is that thu medium which Is exterior to the body in one case Is interior In the other Each of us is a walking marine aquar ium. Instead of having the sea around us 1t is in us. Animals which live il the sea have naturally, and ,whethe they will or no, a certain vital medium the water of the sea. Non-aquatic ami mals make this vital marine medium in a sense voluntarily by a selection of the chemical clements which thei food contains. In fact the marine medi um of the superior organisms is consti tuted and maintained against and il spite of alimentation, which withou the selection exercised by the physolo gic forces would constitute naturally { very different medium, It is as thougl the superior organisms remembered their primitive medium and having al imperious need of it maintained it. Il fact the maintenance spite of grea difficulties of this marine medium il so general that 1t might be spoken o as law the law of the persistence o the original marine medium.
 Such Is the fundamental idea of M Quinton's book. It is easy now to un derstand the theory of the sea wate treatment. Physiology shows us tha the vital medium of the immense ma jority of creature is sea water, the les concentrated sea water which existed at the time when life first made its ap pearance upon the earth. It is reason able to ask therefore, if in many case disease does not gain a foothold in ou bodies on account of the weakening ol chemical modification of the vital me dium, and then on this hypothesis ev' erything points to the possibility of re vitalizing the organism by injecting in to it sea water altered in It's compost tion so as to render it identical as fai as possible, with the less concentrated water of the seas in which life began The proposition is reasonable, and th' :, central idea of the sea water treatmen . .-....