HOT-WATER DRINKING.
_ — _._* This practice is supposed by many to bo a sort of cure-all for human ailments. W. F. Hutchinson in the 'American Magazine' opposes this view. He says : "If hot water is ever of any value when swallowed, it must be by virtue of its heat alone', for below life temperature (98deg Farenheit) it is a fair emetic ; above that it is a sharp stimulant- so sharp, indeed, as to be badly borne by a majority of stomachs. Hot or cold it is ever a bad plan to drink quanties of fluid. Taken before meals, theyjdilute ferments into debility ; after eating, they seriously impede chyle formation by washing out too quickly unassimilated nutritive fluid. It is a maxim of modern surgery . that heated applications to mucous surfaces cause congestion in a secondary way ; that, following sharp stimulants and contraction, comes a general relaxation of blood-vessels that fill lazily and remain distended from lack of power to propel blood forward. So I condemn the practice of drinking hot water unqualifiedly.
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Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 33, 21 July 1888, Page 2
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