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Salt As A Blood Purifier

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Day
1
Month
November
Year
1872
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Public Domain
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Dr. Stephen!, a French Physician, Baw a butclior killing a pig. He observed that he stirred the bleod of th animal, ddiiiií a handful of coinnion salt wliile stirring, whioh immediately made it orimson, aml the ütirrin l):ing disoontihueá, it romained fluid. Tlio chango of color ítwakened liiscuriosit y. The butcheroould jïivc no eiplanation of the iilu.;nomi'na, except that it kept it fromjellying nnd ppoiling, Dr. Stevens seizod a voBsol, caïight some blood and mado soveral experimcntsliy putting snit into it, and fonnd that the darkest blood was changed instantly into a bright v rmilion by Bidt. "And," suid he, "horo is fact that may losa to a practical rulo."-He had obsorvcd, in cases of yellow fever in the army, that the blood drawn waa ■very biack mud fluid, and, on adding salí i beoinno vermilion and retafued Ís i'rosliiic.sk, wliuroíis putii iity el" btood is né nf the charaoteristioa i' yollow foer. lio therefoi'r abandoned thn usual modo 'f treaticg it, and j;íiv( hia patienta a mixture of v:irii:us saltn, and in ;i v(.ry short time roduced the mortality of fovat in tli Wi'st [lidies f rom 0110 in fivo to One in tifty

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