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Show Criminals Given ChOIce ChoiceOf ChoiceOf Of No Saltor Salt or HangingNone Hanging None of us can live without salt saltPerspiratIOn saltPerspiration saltPerspiration PerspiratIOn resulting in loss of ofsalt ofsalt ofsalt salt from the human hurhan body makes makesmen makesmen makesmen men liable to muscuar muscular ) cramps crampsSeveral crampsSeveral crampsSeveral Several years ago a doctor and andthree andthree andthree three medical students deliberate deliberate- deliberately deliberately - - ly deprived themselves of all salt saltStrange saltStrange saltStrange Strange symptoms aoon soon resulted resultedAppetite resultedAppetite resultedAppetite Appetite was lost , food seemed seemedtasteless seemedtasteless seemedtasteless tasteless cigarettes lost their fla tin flavor tinvor flavor vor , cramps in the muscles developed de- de developed de developed - - veloped , , and all suffered from excessive ex excessive excessive cessive fatigue and a general generalsense generalsense generalsense sense of exhaustion exhaustionAt At one time one of the legalpunishments legal legalpunishments legalpunishments punishments in Holland was to de deprive de- de deprive - - prive prlve a man of his salt It led todepression to todepressIOn todepression depressIOn and illness Con Con- Condemned Condemned Condemned - - demned criminals in Sweden wereonce were wereonce once allowed , if they wished , toabstain to toabstain toabstain abstain from salt for a month instead in instead stead of mounting mountmg the scaffold Theresult The Theresult result was practically a certaindeath certain certaindeath certaindeath death |