Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
CHOKING UP WITH WASTE.
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE
BOOYS DRAINAGE SYSTEM.


Pores In the Skin-Beneflts 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 unquestionabfy 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 it GER
! tainly would be better for all could they
! by some means-the best is exercise
manage to work themselves into per-
SEPARATION every day.
TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF DRAINAGE.
1t is roughly estimated that there are
100000 pores in the skin which open on
its surface. They are very large part
of the bodys 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. 1t 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 ma
ture for the discharge of waste from the
system, butthey 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
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 we'll opened, but it win be
clear to all that the little tubes can only
be kept perfectly free by frequent flush
ing. When person gets into 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 a 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.
1t is undeniablya 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
dGtiNC Va SSNkSAto1s ALfSS- w SIr Idltc
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.
TEE BATHS THE THING
Where sufficient exercise cannot be
taken TO obviate the defect, the next best
means is the hot ar bath Such bath
can, Of course, be 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 n the Turkish
bath. which some physaCians have eren
gone so far as 10 say is the most power
sul and certain. and st the ssme tnethe
safest and most agreeable therapeutic
agents in existence. One OF than quite
rightly says that person can remove Us
much ofthe poisonous and effefe matter
from the body IN one hour In Turkish
bath IS can be removed by other means
in twenty tour hours In this foTmof
bath, as Professor Erasmus Aas7unsaE.