Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-29
CHOKING tip WITH WASTE
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE
 BopY'S DRAINAGE SYSTEM.

The Proper Work or tho Seven n1Anon
 Pores I'm the Sl<in-Benefts of Healthy
 Perspiring - Effectiveness of Turkish
 Baths-How to Keep In Good Condition
 The generality of people enjoy much better health during summer than in winter. This is unquestiOnably the rule with those of sedentary occupations who are denied sufficient exercise. Probably the principal reason is that during the warm season the skin is much the most active. and sweating is always more or less profuse. Perhaps it is too much to say that those who do not sweat easily and often cannot be healthy; but 1t cer- tainly would be better for all could they
 by some means-the best is exercise
 manage to work themselves into a per spiration every day.
 TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF DRAINAGE
 It is roughly estimated that there are
 1000 900 pores in the skin which open on
 its surface. They are a very large part
 of the body's sewerage system; and
 some one with patient calculation has
 reached the solution that these pores are
 sluice gates for over twenty-five miles
 of drainage. It is very evident that
 health largely depends upon the good
 working condition of this drainage sys-
 tenn, and if the outlets-the pOres-are
 blocked up. the waste matters must be
 diverted into other channels.
 Other avenues - notably the bowels
 and kidneys-have been provided by na-
 ture for the discharge of waste from the system, but they have sufficient work of their own to do and, while they would patiently respond for time to any extra demands upon them, sooner or later, un- less relieved of the unusual burden. they would shows signs of distress. and be-
 come so crippled they would no longer
 be able to perform properly even their own legitimate work. The waste which should be thrown of through the skin cannot be entirely diverted and sent out through other channels; much of it must remain locked up in the system When it's natural outlet is obstructed. some of it permeates the tissues of the body, enters the blood. and is distributed about in the system. and so produces diseases of vari- ous kinds.
 By frequent bathing the pores are kept fairly we'll opened. but it will be clear to all that the little tubes can only be kept perfectly free by frequent flush ing. When a person gets into a good sweat the outflow is considerable and the channels are well washed out. If that salutary process takes place every day. and the body is duly cleaned by one or two baths week, in that direc- ton at least about all Is being done which can be done to keep the skin ac- tive and healthy. Daily exercise, to meet all requirements, should be carried far
 enough to produce quite free perspira- | ton.
 It is undeniably a fact that very large | proportion of the ills which man suffers from are due to obstruction in the skin system of drainage. That fault is almost always present in those who take cold ! easily and in those who are victims to
 neuralgia, sleeplessness, dyspepsia, bil- | iousness, gout, etc. And this class is
 largely made up of people who live in- active or sedentary lives. Were this liability of the system to choke up with waste fully appreciated by people gen. orally, and means to obviate it conscien- | tiously taken, infinitely less medicine
 would be needed in the world than is now used.
 | THE BATHS THE THING. Where sufficient exercise cannot be taken to obviate the defect, the next best means is the hot air bath. Such a bath can. of course, be taken in one's own | home, something after the same method as the old fashioned rum sweating pro cess. But any domestic arrangement must be incomplete in the absence of the
 shower bath, the hand rubbing. etc. All the essentials are found in the Turkish
 bath. which some physicians have even | gone so far as to say is the most power | ful and certain. and at the same time the safest and most agreeable therapeutic | agents in existence. One of them quite | rightly says that a person can remove as
 much of the poisonous and effete matter from the body in one hour in Turkish bath as can be removed by other means | in twenty-four hours. In this form of bath, as Professor Erasmus Wilson says,
 ''the skin acquires color, freshness, firm
 ness and elasticity; it loses the muddy
 and faded hues of ill health and the
 parched and wrinkled aspect of infirm- ity and age, and 1t procures for the habitual bather exercise. health and
 life" As for the effects of the Turkish bath upon the disordered liver and kid neys, they are very marked indeed. Not
 only does it lift no small part of their
 work, and 30 give them chance to re- cuperate. but it draws the blood from them to the surface of the body, and so
 relieves congestion. and, hence. obviates
 a strong tendency to disease.
 Turkish baths are efficient in reducing
 weight; therefore, it is held that they
 are contra-indicated for those who are
 thin. But, strange as it may seem. they
 act both ways. Where a person is what is
 SO aptly termed ''soft and flabby." and is
 overloaded with fat. they reduce him; whereas a person in poor health and thin, they. by restoring the system to
 normal condition, increase the bodily
 weight. BQSton Herald.
 
 A Multitude of Ailments.