Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — This Sea-Water Treatment. [ARTICLE]

This Sea-Water Treatment.

Some of tho Paris physicians warmly recommend the treatment of obesity by the administration of sea water, combined with a residence at the seaside. It is urged that sea water, taken internally, acts like diuretic and purgative salts, a remarkable fact being that the diuretic effect increases when the purgative diminishes. The water is to be obtained, when possible, from some depth and far from the shore, being then left to ‘ settle for six to twelve hours and filtered. It is to be taken three times a day in doses of a small tumblerful, or in half that quantity at a t me, with fresh water or milk. The claim is that sea wafer thus used facilitates the oxygenation of the blood, and that it hasted! the elimination of effete materials. In combination with this treatment sea-water baths are to be taken, free exercise is to be carried out, and at the same time fattening foods are, of course, to be avoided. The latest invention in hat lining is a map of the city of London printed on silk, so that any stranger or gay young fellow mav find his way home, or*see at a glance if cabby is taking him the nearest route to his destination. Lieutenant Goazbon has invented a method for firing dynamite uhells from ordinary cannon, which has just been successfully tried in San Francisco. ' -'. \ -