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Show amount in meat. Ordinary table salt is simply a chemical, sodium chloride, which, when taken in to the body, is broken up into sodium and chlorine and used as such. The chlorine is especially necessary to cur body economy because be-cause it is the chief form of alkaline al-kaline found in the body. The human body must at all times maintain a relative alkalinity. alkalin-ity. At any time that this condition con-dition fails to exist and the system sys-tem becomes acid, death immediately immed-iately ensues. As the system approaches ap-proaches acidity or reduced alkalinity, al-kalinity, there are very marked symptoms, chiefly a loss of consciousness, con-sciousness, reduced breathing, blue-ness blue-ness of the fingers, toes and lips complete prostration. Unless alkalinity al-kalinity is immediately restored, death rapidly ensues. It is a common belief that a person, with high blood pressure should not eat salt because it raises hisbloo d pressure. This is not the case. The only time that a person should not eat as muc'i salt as they particularly desire is in the case of diseased kidneys and as an excess of salt throws an extra burdea on the kidneys, it Is naturally inadvisable. I Each of you have noticed that your appetite for salt varies from time to time. This is because when your body needs salt it increases your appetite for it. As I stated in my lecture last week, our appetites are controlled by our bodes needs. During your next attack of influenza, in-fluenza, if you win prepare the following beverage and drink a glass of it every hour, you will find that your attack of the "flu" will be cut materially shorter. To one pint of water add a level lev-el teaspoonful of ordinary table salt. Mix thoroughly and cool. Take one glass of this beverage hourly while awake. CLUB NOTES Dear Dr. Reeder: What is the best thing to do for hiccoughs? Answer: Have the patient sitting sit-ting up facing you. Take his left are in your right hand and raise it level with his shoulder. Then place the first three fingers fin-gers of your left hand behind his collar bone, near the middle and make steady, forceful pressure downwards and backwards with the three fingers, holding this for one minute and repeat again in one minute. This will stop nearly every case of hiccoughs. Readers of this publication are at liberty to write and ask questions ques-tions on health. Enclose 6 cents lor postage and address Dr. D. H. Reeder, 314 Wirthman Bldg, Kansas Kan-sas City, Missouri. & HOME ! HEALTH CLUB . Edited by DR. DAVID H. REEDER Kansas City, Missouri Salt: It may surprise you that I may write about such a commonplace com-monplace subject as "salt" but I can assure you that although it is commonplace, it is nearly as imrjortant as our drinking water in our lives. Each of you are familiar with our commonly called "salt licks". These are outcroppings of salt to which animals went annually to lick the ground, hence, the name "salt licks". All animals that live on vegetables need salt in their diet and there are seasons in the year in which there is no natural salt in the vegetables, which they eat, therefore, their journeys to the salt licks. Salt is Just as necessary to the human economy as it is to our herbivorous animals. In the human hu-man being it is supplied as you all know by our table salt, vegetables vege-tables which we eat and a small |