Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-10
SEA WATER SAVES BABIES
Children's Diseases and Hereditary
Taints Washed Away by injections.

Monsieur, monsieur can you tell me
where the man lives who saves ba-
bies?"
The pale. frail woman with the
emaciated. feebly moaning, sick BABY
in her arms spoke hesitatingly, but
with a strange eagerness lighting up
the thin little face which seemed to
tell of too little solid food partaken of
by it's owner. She had clambered
down from a third class carriage on a
train just pulled into the Montparnas-
sc Station, and her question was adj
dressed to the first person she saw on
the platform.e
Can you tell. me, monsieur, where
the man lives who saves babies?" And
the man appealed to said kindly:
Certainly. madam, / know where he
lives; I'll have a station attendant
show you the way
oddly enough, the man did know the
address of the man who saves babies"
and he sent the woman to the office of
DR.. Rene Quinton, the sea water ex-
pert, near by There. by injections of
salt water from the ocean, the almost
dying child was saved.
knows of 1.-THE good NJ. Quinton." He
more than two years ago discovered
and first applied to children suffering
of the terrible summer complaint
Gnfantile gastreenteritis). the sea
water cure" at once noting most mar
Vicious results Formerly babies suf-
fering of the disease practically were
given up as lost. but NJ. Quinton's dis
covery. simple as it is in it's applica-
ton, has changed it all and he is re-
garded all over Europe as a benefac-
tor to mankind.
AT first" DR.. Quinton told the cor
respondent, ''choleraic enteritis baffied
us: il defied treatment. Every child
brought to us suffering from this form
of disease died Then | sat TO work
experimenting I found the sea water
cure. and now we save so per cent.
The cure is scientific injection of
sea water into the body hypodermical-
~. and physicians learn the method at
once. There appears to be nothing
really difficult about it. Doctors from
the United States and most of the 9th
err countries of the civilized world now
are studying the process. hoping,
through it, to arrest the most terrible
ill babies of the world are heir to.
"Of this disease" the scientist con-
tinued 10000 children die in France
every year (the number is more than
doubled in the United States). Prop
erly applied the sea-water treatment
could save, / believe, $1,000 of them
easily. But suppose we saved 10000;
that is a division of an army.
Here is another curious fact. The
injection of sea water washes away
heredity taints. Children brought to
us, born of tuberculous or alcoholic
parents. and treated for a few months.
not only become normal, but better
than normal Placed in roomful of
average children they can be picked
out at once by their healthy glow,
their sturdiness and general superior
condition. The child born with stain
in its system treated in this way,
very quickly develops out of all pro-
portion to his brothers and sisters who
have not been so treated. becoming a
little giant.
This sea water is wonderful fluid.
earth made their appearance. We
have a great deal to learn about it yet.
but we have found out enough to make
us know that we have at hand an
abundant supply of ammunition of
enormous value in our battle against
the diseases which beset mankind. -
Paris Correspondent of Kansas City