The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-31
CHOKING UP WITH WASTE.
INFORMATION CONCERNING The
bODY's DRAINAGE SYSTEM.

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 mitch 80
saw that those who DO not sweat easily |
and often cannot I've healthy; but 1t GER
tainly would be better for all could they |
by some mcans-thc best Is exercise
rnauaee 10 work themselves into a per
spiration every day.
TWENTY-FIVE MILES or bKAieAoE.
1t is roughly estimated that there are
1000, coo pores In the skin which open on
its surface. They are 4 tefy large part
of the body's sewerage system; and
some ono with patient calculation has
reached tho 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 pcrcs-are
blocked up, the waste matters must be
diverted into other channels.
Other avenues 49, notably tho bowels
and kidneys-have been provided by ma
turc 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 then
own legitimate work. The waste which
should be thrown off through the skin
cannot be entirely diverted and sent ont
through other channels; much Of 1t must
remain locked up in the system. When
its natural outlet is obstructcd. some Of ii
permcates the tissues Of the body, enters
the blood. and is distributed about in tho
system. and 50 produces diseases of vari-
Gus kinds.
By frequent bathing the pores are
kept fairly well opened, but 1t viii hc
clear TO all that the little tubes can only
DO 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. II
that salutary process takes place every
dav. and the body is duly cleaned by
one or two baths.a week, in that dircc-
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 a free perspire-
ton.
1t is undoniablya fact thata 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 arc victims "a
neuralgia, slecplcssness. dyspepsia, bill.
iousness. govt, etc. And this class !.
largely made up Of people who live In
active or sedcntary lives. Wero thi
liability of the system to choke mp Will
waste fully appreciated by people gen
orally. and means to obyiatc it conscicn
tiously taken, infinitely less medicine
would be needed in the world than j.
now used.
THE BATHS TIE THING.
Where sufficient exercise cannot b'
taken 10 obviate the defect, the next bes
means is the hot air bath. Such batl
can, Of course, be taken in ones owl
home. something after tho same mcthO.
"a the old fashioned rum sweating pro
cess. But any domestic arrangcmcn
must be incomplete in the absence Of Tin
shower bath. the hand rubbing. etc. ~
tho essentials are found in the Iurkial
bath. which some physicians have cyci
cone so far rs TO say is the most power
ful and certain, and at the same time ia
safest and most agreeable therapeuli
AGENTS in existence. Ono Of them quit
rightly saws that a person can remove a
much Of the poisonous and eflcte matte
from the body in one hour in Turks
bath as can be removed 10y other mean
in twentv-four hours. In this form q
bath. as Professor Erasmus Wilson say.
, "tho skin acquires color, freshness, firm
ness and elasticity; it loses the mudd
and faded hucs of i'll health and I'll
marched and wrinkled aspect of iniirn
ity and age. and it procurcs for I'll
Z habitual bathcr exercise, health an
! life" As for the effects Of the Turks
bath upon the disordered liver and ki'
| news. they are very marked indeed. No
only does it lift no small part OF the
work. and so give them a chance 70 n
cuperate. but it draws the blood frol
them to the surface Of the body, aud
relieves congestion, and, hence obviat'
a strong tendency to disease.
Turkish baths are efficient in rcducin
weight: therefore, it is held that tho
are communicated for those who a
thin. But, strange as it may seem, Tho
| act both ways. Where person IS what
| so aptly termed "soft and ilabby'' and
overloaded with fat, they reduce I'm
whereas a person in poor health al
n thin. they, by restoring the system to
e normal condition, increase the bodi
wcight.-Boston Herald.