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yeah, AC was deliberately trying to hurt someone. what a squathead.
The problem is that since sea water has a higher salt concentration than the body, if water could travel through the skin, it would LEAVE the body. Water follows salt (let's hear it for countercurrent multiplication in the loops of Henle) -- Dennis Gibbons dkgibbons at optonline dot net "JAXAshby" wrote in message ... KNOCK IT OFF, YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!! you know not a thing you are talking about. a seawater enema is JUST AS DANGEROUS as drinking seawater. Idiot. geesus kriste!! From: "AC" Date: 8/29/2004 5:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: You'd be much better off giving yourself an enema with it, than sitting in it. Several cases of extended survival at sea without drinking, using seawater enemas have been reported. "KimDalkin" wrote in message ... I just finished ready Jack London's "South Sea Island Tales". In it he descibes Islanders preventing dehydration by sitting in sea water. A hurrican had just destroyed the islands drinking water. He describes it relieving thirst, though not getting rid of it entirely. I spoke to a doctor friend of mine, and he thinks its pluasible. The density of salt in the body is just slightly less than sea water. If severely dehyrated, then reverse osmoosis would occur, and water would pass through the skin back into the body. Does reverse osmosis occur? If so, should the Ancient Mariner of jumped into the sea, instead of watching the boards shrink? Kim |
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