Sugar House Bulletin | 1944-09-01 | Page 7 | Criminals Given Choice of No Salt of Hanging

Criminals Given Choice Of No Salt or Hanging None of us can live without salt. Perspiration resulting in loss of salt from the human body makes men naoie to muscular cramps. Several years ago a doctor and three medical students deliberately deliberate-ly deprived themselves of all salt. Strange symptoms soon resulted. Appetite was lost, food seemed tasteless, cigarettes lost their flavor, fla-vor, cramps in the muscles developed, de-veloped, and all suffered from excessive ex-cessive fatigue and a general sense of exhaustion. At one time one of the legal punishments in Holland was to deprive de-prive a man of his salt. It led to depression and illness. Condemned Con-demned criminals in Sweden were once allowed, if they wished, to abstain from salt for a month instead in-stead of mounting the scaffold. The result was practically a certain death.