The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-10

the above experiment was performed.
Needless to say similar experiments
were repeated great number of times,
and not only were the subjects" COM
pletely restored to health five days lat
er, but it was noted that they had
gained in vigor and were all alive some
years afterward.
The Importance Of this discovery can
not be overestimated, for it brought to
light one of the primordial elements of
life NJ Quinton thus has shown US
what is the liquid indispensable to the
life of our organic cells. We now pos
sess the culture broth" Of the organic
cell. Our existence is bound up in the
purity and integrity of the broth of
marine culture. Normal life is only
possible in so far as nothing pollutes
or changes this inner oceanic medium,
and it is this fact which forms the
point of departure for the application
in medicine of Quinton's method. Ev-
cry malady is a poisoning of the
blood due to the waste formed. The
organism suffers from this modification
of it's natural medium. The injection
of sea water purifes this polluted
medium just as fresh air renovates the
vitiated atmosphere of a room. 1t is
a therapeutic agent of a general kind,
the plasma itself of the oganic cell.
To sum rp: The subcutane injec-
ton of sea water rejuvenates and
renovates our corrupted vital medium.
The fatigued and poisoned cells at once
resume normal existence being re-
stor ed to their natural medium. This
explains the marvellous rapidity o. the
results obtained in certain cases by the
injection of marine p asma.
In his Sorbonne lecture N Quinton
dealt solely with the cases where the
results are, SO to speak. instantaneous.
First and foremost on the list come
hrepsics-new-born babes suffering
from the deadly green diarrhea, unable
to digest any food, vomiting every
thing. not only milk but even water.
One hour after the first injection the
baby is able to take the feeding bottle,
the vomiting and diarrhea cease, and
it is saved. Such results are not the
exception, but the rule, for they are
true of 80 per cent of the cases. If
one reflects that 10000 children die an
nually in France of gastro-enteritis,
the value of the Quinton treatment is
evident. Perhaps enc of the most re-
markable cures of gastro-enteritis was
that of baby which was brought to
the dispensary when it was practi ally
beyond human aid 1t was unable to
digest even water. The age of the baby
was Az months. and it weighed less
than at it's birth. Two hours after the
first injection t was able to retain two
ounces of milk. Two days afterward
it's weight had increased by half a
pound
NJ Quinton showed his Sorbonne audi
ence photographs Of babies whose
faces We're covered with eczema on
their arrival at the dispensary. A few
injections sufficed to restore the face to
its normal condition. In treating
eczema it is necessary to employ only
weak doses, at most 80 cubic cent?
metres in the case of an adult and 10
in that of children. In the case of
patients afflicted with varicose ulcers.
the suffering di,ninisses with the first
injection, and in some cases the ulcer
cica tries with marvellous rapiditY.
Excellent results have also attended
the treatment applied to pulmonary
tuberculosis. Not less surprising from
the point of view of rapidity are the
results obtained in treating adults for
the different maladies CT the stomach
and intestines as well as in every kind
of muco- membranous enteritis and
chronic constipation. Nj Quinton tells
me that Is per cen. OF the cases of
muco-membraneou- enteritis and the
most obstinate intestinal sluggishness,
! which have resisted every treatment
and years of 6ieting, are transformed
! in the space of "A hours In other
words, the cure is apparent from the
first injection. In 20 per cent. of these
cases the cure is apparent after the
fifth or sixth injec ion. Only Is per
cent. of the cases prove refractory
NJ Quinton has opened a popular dis
pensary close to the Montparnasse sta
ton in the midst OF a crowded district
Every day for some months past you
might have seen in the Rue de PAR
rivee, where the d:spensary is situat-
ed, more than 200 patients cross the
threshold. The INDECENT are treate
gratuitously, the others are charged
fees varying from so confines 40
cents) to two francs (40 cents) The
dispens ary consists of a vast waiting
room, four private rooms where the in
jections are made a laboratory. a
weighing room and two consulting
rooms. The doctors, generous and de-
voted propagandists of the new treat
ment, are Robert Simon, Pierre Laf-
fitte, Aries. Bourganel Chauvain and
De Lambert. The nurses, who hold the
diplomas of the Red Cross, the league
of the children of France etc, are all
society women who give their services
gratuitously. One of the most inter
ested visitors to the dispensary in the
Rue de l'Arrivee was the Duchess of
Sutherland. Her grace who was ini-
tiated into the mode of performing an
injection, inquired infinitely into the
methods and general orking of the
institution and took away with her an
armful of books aid pamphlets. M
Quinton tells me that the duchess de-
clared her intention of opening a SINH
lar dispeDsary in Scotland II do not
conceal from myself the difficulty of
the undertaking" she remarked, "for
our doctors are even more conserva-