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Show I Highball I Salt Water Recommended NEW HAVEN, Conn. The Quarterly Journal of Alcohol carried car-ried a report recently that suggested sug-gested one should take a drink of salt water when he has reached the stage of really craving alcohol. alco-hol. The report was a study by Dr. W. D. Silkworth and Dr. M. Tex-on Tex-on of Knickerbocker Hospital, N. Y. They analyzed the blood of persons who had been drinking drink-ing heavily enough to be hospitalized. hospital-ized. In all cases they found the salt reduced. From this study they concluded conclud-ed the body is really craving salt, even though the palate says alcohol. There is nothing imaginary imagi-nary behind this sensation. It is purely physical reaction that fools the senses. The recommended salt drink, says the report, is two grams of salt in thirty cubic centimeters of water, followed by two hundred hun-dred cubic centimeters of water. This amounts to a small tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of salt in a little more than an ordinary glass of water. |