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WITHOUT sodium chloride life would not 

 amount to much. There would be no 

 sort of cooking which at any price would 

 ever get an encore. There would be no packing or 

 canning industries indeed not very much com- 

 merce of any sort. The codfish would pass away; 

 the mackerel would no longer delight the palates of 

 those who dwell far from the stern and rock-bound 

 coast. Without salt the waste of the world would 

 be so enormously increased that the world could not 

 carry its own burdens. Salt is a part of us as well 

 as a part of the things that we use. From deer to 

 diva, all the world needs salt. Doctors use it to 

 infuse life into a waning circulatory system. In- 

 deed, science figures out nowadays that it can come 

 near producing life itself by means of certain saline 

 reactions. 



All of which is merely by way of saying that salt 

 seems to have some strange revivifying effect on 

 animal life. Give a horse a taste of rock salt and 



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