Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-07-25
CHOKING UP WITH WASTE.
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE
BoDY'S DRAINAGE SYSTEM.

rhe Proper Work Of the Seven Million
Pores in the skin-Benefits of Healthy
Perspiring Effectiveness OF Turkish
Baths How to Keep in Coed 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 IL Ger.
tainly would be better for all could they
by some means-the best Is exercise
manage TO work themselves into per-
spiration every day.
TWENTY-FIVE MILES or DRAINAGE.
II is roughly estimated that there are
1000. 900 pores in the skin which open ON
its surface. They are 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. II Is very evident that
health largely depends upon the good
working condition Of this drainage sys-
tenn, and IL 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 10 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
he able to perform properly even their
own legitimate work The waste which
should be thrown oil through the skin
cannot be entirely diverted and sent out
through other channels: much of IL must
remain locked up in the system. When
its 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.
olIs kinds
By frequent bathing the pores are
kept fairly well opened, but it will be
clear To all that the little tubes can only
DO kept perfectly free by frequent flush
ing. When person gets into a good
sweat the outflow is considerable and
the channels are well washed out. II
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 he 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 a fact that a 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
ionsness, 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 il 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 il the hot air bath. Such bath
can. of course. he 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 80 far as to say is the most power
full and certain. and ut the same time the
safest and most agreeable therapeutic
agents in existence One Of them quite
rightly says TINT a person can remove Us
much Of the poisonous and eifete matter
from the body in one hour in Turkish
bath as can be removed by other means
in twenty hours In this form of
bath. as Professor Erasmus Wilson saws.
1.-THE skin acquires color, freshness, firm.
ness and elasticity; ii loses the muddy
and faded hues of i'll health and the
parched and wrinkled aspect of infirm-
ity and age, and 1t procures for the
hahitual 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 ii lift no small part Of their
work, and so give them a chance to re-
cupcrate. but il draws the blood from
them 10 the surface of the body, and SO
relieves congestion, and, hence. obviates
n strong tendency to disease,
Turkish baths are efficient in reducing
weight: therefore, IL is held that they
are contra a-indicated for those who are
thin. But, strange as IL may seem. they
act both ways. Where a person is what is
so aptly termed "soft and flatIsy." and is
overloaded with fat. they reduce him:
whereas a person In poor health and
thin, they, 10y restoring the system TO a
normal condition, increase the bodily
weight. Boston Herald.
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