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Feilding Star, 10 November 1891, Page 2

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. Dr'Burggraeve, a learned professor ~ of the University of .Ghent, has just published a remarkable; work, in which ' he endeavors 1 ' to** prove that anybody wha will "take' the trouble to J f6llow r nis instructions 'may become a v centenarian^ His" system' is merely a ' system of renovation,' and is simplicity itself. The great panacea* for all ills .which he.professes to hare discovered is salt, the', rational use of which he says; is a sure . preserver ■of life. He affirms that gooxT health.is not a matter, of change ; or> constitution ; the laws' which regulate 1 human 3 life are calm and regular phenomena, and all we haveio;do:is take care that they shall develop' themselves without obstruction. 7 •• *•*•*. - . ' According; to'^his ■' theory salt is the great regulatings-agent. \ If the blood •bß'toorjcb, sal^wiHclawfyflti II the J>loo4.be tqa poo/if wJfejfill Strengthen it, and furnish; it ,with< necessary elements.. Di Burggraeve Quoted several examples in support of lhe*sovereiga -■ virtue which he attributesto salt. .Formerly, in Holland, the greatest ' punishment which existed for~o£Cending soldiers was. to give them unsalted bread. After a few months of this regime' the culprits/ almost invariably died. In Saxony, at -the, end of the last century, a - terrible" epidefoic, » - 1 reigned solely through the wstnt 'of The Butcib sayanji lurtbermoyf &■• sures us that' salt is an infallible cure for consumption and ' cholera. The Russian peasants once saved them* selves from a terrible plague by putting salt in their milk.,. He estimates that the quantity of salt which every adult in ordinary health should consume daily is of an ounce. In conclusion, he asserts that if the world onlytake to^salt; 1 centenarians would be. common as new-Voirn babes.