Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-11
CHOKING UP WITH WASTE.
INFORMATION CONCERNING The
eooY,S DRAINAGE SYSTEM.

INFORMATION CONCehNiNo tHE
eooY'S DRAINAGE SYSTEM.
ne Proper WORK Of the Seven Million
Pores In the skin-Benefits of Healthy
PerspirinS Ensrtiveseas Of Turkish
Bashs-How to Keep I'm Good Condition
The generality OF people enjoy much
'shasssRE health during. samnasr than In
|. winter This = unquestsonabiy the rule
with those of sedensary occupations who
saredsBied saf6eieAs sxercssese<Prebably
the principal reason is that during the
.swsxn season the skin is machithe most
active, and sweating is always more or
= le2 Hofuse. Perhaps it is too much to
nay that those who do not sweat easily
and often cannot be healthys batit GER
3 tainly would be better for all could they
by some means--the best Is exercise
I. sanaaaee to work, themselves into n per-
spiraiion every day.
's,asTwHNTY-FTyZ NILES OF DRAINAGE.
Its roughly estimated thai there are
100000 pores in the skin which open on
its surface. They are very large part
u tflc bN'IAatsS SyosNAts - -
soue one with patient calaniaeaon has
reached the solution that these pores are
ssluics gates for over twenty-five miles
OF drainage. IL is very ssldent that
health largely depends upon the good
working condition of this drainage sys-
TEN, 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 ma
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, I'M
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
7 own legitimate work The waste which
should be thrown off through the skin
cannot be entirely diverted and sent out
through other channels; much of it must
remain locked up in the system. When
its natural outlet is INSTRUCTED, 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-
Gus kinds.
By frequent bathing the pores are
kept fairly well opened, but it will he
clear to all that the little tubes can only
be kept perfectly free by frequent flush
ing. When u person gets into good
sweat the outflow is considerable and
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that salutary process takes place every
day, and the body is duly cleaned by
one or two baths a week, in that direc-
ton at least about all is being done
which can be done TO keep the skin &C
tive and healthy. Daily exercise. to meet
all requirements, should be carried far
enough to produce quite free perspira-
ton.
1t is undeniably 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, bill
iousness, govt, 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 conscicn-
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 bath
can, of course, lie taken in ones 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
full 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 eifete matter
from the body in one hour in a Turkish
bath Us can he removed by other means
in twenty -four hours. In this form of
bath as Professor Erasmus Wilson saws
1.-The skin acquires color freshness, firm
ness and elasticity; it loses the muddy
and faded hues of i'll health and the
parched and wrinkled aspect of intirn,-
ity and age, and it 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 so give them chance 70 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 contaminated for those who are
thin. But. strange as it may seem. they
act both ways. Where person is what is
so apty termed soft and tlabby." and is
overloaded with fat, they reduce him:
whereas a person in poor health and
thin they, by restoring the system to a
normal condition, increase the bodily
weight Boston Herald.
| Air la Crowded Rooms.
| A writtr IN he Nineteenth Century saws:
Within Goor, find that the number Of
micro ORGANISMS suspended in the air de
| ponds, as We should have expected, upon tie
number Of Ieopl present and the amount of
disturbance Of the air which is taking place
In illustration 81 this the fpIl,,yI inc