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in an attempt to revive their energy
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and their flagging health.
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Also there were attempts at rehydration therapy.
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But this took the form that was now outdated,
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after 1908,
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of trying to get the patients to suck on ice,
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or to drink,
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or to be injected
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with isotonic saline solutions;
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that is, of the same content of salt,
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same salinity as the blood,
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which by 1908, through a century of experience,