THE MIDWIVES' REGISTRATION BILL

1890 The Lancet  
demonstration" in an anatomical lecture room. After forty-one years under water this is indeed a remarkable phenomenon. The large intestine contained faeces of a yellowish-brown colour, quite unaltered and quite inodorous ; while the bladder was partially filled with strawcoloured urine. But perhaps the most significant feature disclosed by these corpses is the following :-In their I interior abundant chloride of sodium, crystallised in cubes, had been deposited and fixed on the several tissues
more » ... and organs, and these salts had not penetrated, mechanically, into the dead bodies from without. In the completely closed and perfectly unimpaired pericardium of the corpses on the inner pericardial aspect, and also on the outer surface of the heart itself, salt crystals of the same kind, to the weight of five grammes, were found adherent. This, according to Dr. Konig, clearly shows that, in the water, particles held in solution may pass through the skin and the muscles, and find their way into the most deeply-seated organs. Herein, he adds, we have eonfirmatory proof, if such were needed, that the specific virtues of mineral baths exercise in this way their salutary ,effect on the internal economy of the invalid bather. There is a notable difference, however, between the time spent in
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