This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
As a remedy for the effects of sprain or of injury to joints, or of spinal weakness, douches of hot and cold sea-water are exceedingly useful.
Recently gargles of the same are said to have proved curative in chronic relaxed conditions of throat, "Clergyman's Sore Throat," etc. (British Medical Journal, July, 1879).
 
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