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Swallowing Salt Water

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
August
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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One of the most beneficial features of a sea bath is the salt water inadvertently swallowed by bathers. It is a wonderfnl tonic for the liver, stomach and kidneys. In many cases it will cure biliousness when all drug preparations have failed. It is peculiarly effective in ordinary cases of indigestión, disordered stomach and insoinnia, and has been known to produce excellent resus in many cases of dyspepsia. Clean sea ■water is full of tonic and sedative properties. It won't hurt anybody. Indeed, two or three big swallows of it wou,ld be of positive benefit to nine bathers out of ten. It is not of course a palatable or tempting dose to take, butneither is quinine nor calomel. You seldom if ever see an old sailor who is bilious or dyspeptic or a victim to insomnia, and why? For the reáson that an ocean of good medicine spreads all about his sky, and he doses himself copiously with itwhenever his physical mechanism becomes the least bit ranged. -

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News