Isotonic Sea Water in Therapeutics
period journal · 1913
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SUMMARY
A contemporary American review of Quinton's seawater therapy by Rollin H. Stevens, identified on the article as Dermatologist and Roentgenologist to Grace Hospital and German Polyclinic, Detroit. The article introduces Quinton as 'Dr. Rene Quinton, assistant in the Laboratory of Pathological Physiology in the College of France' and surveys his marine plasma theory and clinical results in a favorable register. The paper contains no controlled comparison, no blinded outcome assessment, and no independent measurement of clinical outcomes; it is a secondary report on Quinton's own claims. Useful as evidence that Quinton's work reached professional medical attention in English-speaking North America by 1913. PMID confirmed on PubMed at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36886323/ (verified 2026-06-27). No DOI is available for this historical back-filed article.
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A 1913 American secondary account of Quinton’s marine plasma therapy, published in the Buffalo Medical Journal by a Detroit-based dermatologist. The article offers the most accessible contemporary English-language summary of Quinton’s theoretical framework and clinical claims, and documents that his work was known in North American medical circles within a decade of the first dispensary opening in Paris.