Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — The Virtue in Oyster Shells. [ARTICLE]

The Virtue in Oyster Shells.

Ground oyster shells were prescribed by empirics in the olden time for goitrous, ricketty and scrofulous children. In a communication to the Academy of Medicine in Paris Drs. Muntz and Chatin say they were right. Oyster shells were long ago known to contain lime, nitrogen, iron and sulphur. Beside these constituents they hold manganese, magnesia, fluor bromure, phosphoric acid and iodine—all excellent for feeble children. The bromure taken from the oyster shell is a strong antiseptic. Teeth, they say, w'ould be much improved were pulverized oyster shells given in food to growin® children and to nurses.