GEOGRAPHY OF DEVONSHIRE AND CONSUMPTION. 101 
Of Sea Products, and some Minerals. — Cod Liver Oil is the most 
powerful, yet known co-ordinator of lung-growth. It is not the 
oil as a food only, which acts, hut certain states of chemical rela- 
tion, which, in part, are potential ; hence the value of rancid oils j 
on " nascent" states of chemical relation ; on the power of natural 
mineral waters on the system ; on " fancies" for special foods and 
substances, as most potential, when supplied. Other sea products 
have been extensively tried by the Lecturer, as sea- weed (Fucus 
vesiculoris), manganese, arsenic, iodine, muriatic acid, sea-water 
itself, variously combined ; but more trials are needed. Help may 
be expected from the spectrum analysis of the actual composition 
of sea-water. 
Bacon says, in the Novum Organum, " . . . true axioms 
are first to be drawn out from all kinds of experience ; and the 
experiments of light, not of profit, to be investigated 
Axioms duly discovered and established, will afford plentiful 
harvest of practice, and draw after them whole sheaves of works." 
APPENDIX. 
Br the courtesy of Dr. Saunders, Medical Superintendent of Devon 
County Asylum, the following Table of Phthisis in Exminster and 
the Asylum is appended. 
PHTHISIS. DEVON COUNTY ASYLUM, 1861-70. 
Year. 
Average Lunatic 
Inmates. 
Total 
Average 
Lunatic 
Inmates. 
Deaths from 
Phthisis. 
Total 
Deaths 
of 
Phthisis. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
l86l 
248 
346 
594 
3 
8 
II 
1862 
265 
384 
649 
4 
4 
8 
1863 
268 
393 
661 
14 
1 1 
25 
1864 
277 
395 
672 
9 
1 1 
20 
1865 
288 
401 
689 
6 
10 
16 
1866 
275 
399 
674 
5 
11 
16 
1867 
258 
400 
658 
6 
6 
12 
1868 
275 
421 
696 
4 
2 
6 
1869 
271 
421 
692 
4 
7 
11 
1870 
278 
426 
704 
5 
10 
15 
