El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-13
| night. L. tending to benefit H.
''O-- seawater n Pswerfut TYu,e.

SeaWafer n Powerful I"nic.
ia. Until recently, d viewer. nobody
/ thought Of trying the more direct ana
/ immediate application of seawater by
! subcutaneOus injection. From the first
/ experiments it proved to -besa power
! ful tonic and blood purifier restoring
/ sleep, appetite, and digestion. The pa
4 tlent does enot, have to wait for good
J. effects FEhich. are hmm ed1ates f-.=
ETheE French medical expert on this
I particul6r subject is. Dr.. -Robert-Simon,
I who is in charge of the "sea-Water dis
Z 'pensariesY already mentioned, at
l. Paris. =, He-Says that the seawater must
be collected mot less than 20 miles from
[ shore, at a depth of at least>35 feet
I and at distance from any port or
] current flowing from a port. It is
taken in sterilized bottles, which are
I opened for the few moments neces-
Sary to fill them.
The sea water is not used pure, but
] two parts of it are mixed with five
parts Of fresh water, the latter being
la. gegP-free spring water containing a
minlmQm CT mineral This is filtered
1 threugh a=Pasteur porcelain filter No
heaSsl 81 used. 49,
1Itle Solution loses-nuch of its: activ-
" With time. and hence tbs import
ant ITO use sea water that has not
been collected more than three weeks
II is BY no means easy to obtains the
( STUN absolutely free from sediment.
and Tor this reason some American
| physicians are importing sea waterasin
bottles from Liverpool. where there is
! a concern that hasa secret process for
I obtaining it in a pure states The lObjee-
ton TO sediment is that Eits is3 foreign
I tain germs. '-
The injections are given preferably
/ IN the lower part of the back (the
buttocks), or else Just below the angle
| OF the shoulder blade. AS a prelimin-
airy, the skin is cleaned with alcohol,
/ and the needle is driven its whole
D Lev b - ~
! face a hypOdermic needle is extreme
/ " fine and sharp, and so little pain
] is caused that a-cfild will hardly no
/ tice itsif supplied with a bit of candy
| ftOst distract attention. For an infant
/ the ordinary dose is one-Third Of an
ounce +or.'a full ounce; fors older chill
| dren, half an ounce to two sounees. The
| treatment is given ordinarily three
] times week, butzbOth dosssfaRd' treat.
ilnleIft-' must necessarily vary with the
character and circumstances the
| case.
Is Complex Mixture.
Sea water is a nfuchumpfe scOmplex
mixtuFeqst than isasgeneraHy V inTsg iHed.
/ Roughly speaking, its consists or So u
I perceRts Of fresh. water and 3 u percent1
Of mineral salts. -ThFee-fouTths OF
these salts are chloride of sodium
Common table salt). and the next larg-
est constituent is chloride of magne-
sum- After these come sulphate Of
magnesium, sulphate Of calcium, sui
plate of potash, bromide of magne-
SUM, and carbonate of calcium. There
are also in sea water minute quanti-
ties OF iodine. phosphorus, arsenic, and
number of metals, including gold,
silver and copper.
It is Interesting to observe that near
" all Of these particularly
sodium. magnesium. calcium. pOtas-
SUM and phOsphOrus-are cOnspicu-
ously represented in the makeup OF
the bones and other tissues of the hu-
man body
Blood and sea water. it appears. are.
chemically speaking. much the same
thing This remark applies. however.
4. only to the watery part of the vital
fluid, in which the tiny red cOrpuscles
(Which give it color float about in
multitudes. If small quantity Of
blood be drawn from the veins OF
man or other animal and allowed to
stand for a few hours in a glass re-
ceptacle the red corpuscles will sink
to the bottom, so that the clear watery
serum can be poured off separately.
Have Same Constituents.
Blood serum and sea water contain
exactly the same chemical constitu-
proportions. Thus it viii be under
sttOd why il is that sea water can be
introduced with such good effect into
the veins of a human being, to take the
place of blood that has been lost in
large quantities during a surgical OPP
Grafton or through accidental hemor-
rhage.
The red corpuscIes have no life OF
their own. It is quite otherwise with
the sOcalled white cOrpuscles of the
blood which are individually alive.
The latter are, in fact. a living popu-
latien Of the blood stream. But re-
cent experiments have shown that they
viii continue to live and to meve about
in ordinary sea water for a number OF
hours, finding it a medium in which,
for a while t,least they can get along
very we'll
All OF these facts have a direct bear
ing upon the utilization of sea water
for the cure Of disease It has long
been known that we are in a sense