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La rama hidropática de la medicina francesa es muy susceptible a los caprichos de la economía y de la moda. Poco después de que las señoras de cierta edad dejaran de ir a Salies, se descubrió que sus aguas tenían precisamente la combinación de temperatura, sales y minerales ideal para el tratamiento de los niños subnormales.
Still the hydropathic branch of French medicine is nothing if not responsive to the vagaries of economics and fashion, and it was not long after women of a certain age stopped coming to Salies that its water was discovered to contain just that combination of temperature, salts, and trace minerals that made it sovereign for the treatment of severely retarded children.
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