WHY YOU SHOULD DRINK DEEPLY

Grey River Argus, 28 October 1907, Page 4

WHY YOU SHOULD DRINK DEEPLY

I Faw paopie know t'hjait .fluid in the I way of water and oitlher harmtes bave- ■ -riag€is is of even moTe imipoiteance in chic ipG'eserviaiSo'n of heailtlh Ihan the fctod rtfiie «at; indeed food would be of no use, nor- oouM it be a&S'ianiLaited by th». sysfcom, aor wouM i*t raonjiiiish or maintain :he tissues, if it were no: for the aiserlsflance' ■ of water. (This is the ' vehicle wlhnich emolbles . R.he food thfeiit rriaanif;a:"'ns life to pass into... the tissues tterooigih the OTgians v.Liioh, deal TJiiith drt. To beigim with, we oa'n=ldve longer vdtftio'tt foo-dr^haniwa oan w"il'.lhov:it fluid. Im 'esCTsine emeagency, haumian ■amd animal life miay be idarried o.n withiouit soliid susltcmiatolce fioT a period of forty or fiiity days, but if adl fluid is wilrheld ?it'luas been pHav'ed ■thiat -aJbouit a . fo-rtnrghlt -vvoiuld be the litaaiit. This fiacft illusitraties how dmipotritaini fluid is . in th« operations of life, and how imiptoiit&nrt: is it to 'iihe cxmVinued miadnltenramce otf health. : iN^oiw, water ;-t?o tihe kidneys is as importainlt as aar. to . the luoigs, and justt as the mtoine pure air ■ inhsal'ad by the lungs- ihe better the health, so 1 - the more waiter taken to. flusih the blood of iimipuTa'tiieis- iby the aid of kidneys and skin, the better for the hea2rh in teveiry way. iTihie liay reader may aisk : whait fluid does Ithtat lit 'shoaßM 'be so impoirtanit. I may 'point 'oart ithait it does,, this : it enable^the blood, 1 imoTe ipariculatly.bythe: adtaon : of the. kidneys oaid ■skin, to carry ouit. th's «}i3tem ithe Tetfus'e of food thia't dis inoit used in 'the operations of life. : By fliushing 1 Uhe 'blood, it enables it tfo TMaish aiwtay as ait p-asises *he : body the ■waste of 'ddfferentt 'titsisusis «hialt -have donie ithedir work in ifhe process of -life amd: fthe everla'siting ■dhamige thialt! is going -on in ; the ibody fccm : the. cradle ■to Irfhie Ignave. These .^ave ibiecome effeite matters, wiliTcli when Tetiai mad in. 'She 'bttood 'lead to very many forms of ili-health. It 1 'is simply amusing to me, who daily deal wMi ailiments airisi'nig from improp'eir food itaken, -and to excess of fluid in the ehiaipe of wine, beer,, etc., 'fo observe thei rgnorance that exis,ts..'t6 the TeteitiVe merits of- food and' fluid in TeHalian- to. •heail'th 1 and ■long ftife. lit is iby nio means unusual for patienits ito come, say, fair the trealtm«nt of gouit whikh 19 cmtifdy due to im-' proper food end inis"uffi<fienit amd in.juTious liquids in tihe way of alcohol, in its different fo-nms, wilk> have been-.' friighltenied .by some -ignorant adviser •who has told ith'em thai: cil, is injurious to drink at metiills ; that dinkinig. alt meals leads ito dbesity taind indii'gestdon^ and other ailments of ma/l-nultoutdon o-r over-nutrition. It . is 'a dainigenous fafecy, for I might go co fer as ito say 'th.aji Qinyone having a tend«emcy to goult, ot the ,gouty diathesis, is simple courting disaster to limn.ting fluid, and tialt he or aha cannot drink too much haiunlesis fluid; indeed, the amoiunt may be unlimited wfHlh 'benefiit to the "'juty. In thei case, to dissolve the uria aiM in Ithe syistem in such a w.iy ' f ha+ th* kicueyis 1 dan elimdniate 'ti, two honth::iFand 'times it® weight in fluid i.v esisemrtriiaOv The Tetent.bn ■i.here of 'this, poison is incompatible with health, as it leaids to gout in all irtis 'protean fouims.—^Dt N.. E. Yorke-Davies in the "Genttleman's MJagiazime."