St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-13
PUREWATER
What DR.. Brinley, OF
Minneapolis. Says
About It.

only IN the laboratory, or the
minds of inventive geniused
who are searching for the i'm.
possible. If absolute purity o.
water is necessary to the health
of a community, it is equally
necessary to have an absolutely
pure air. Under the best SAM
1tary conditions the water we
drink and the air we breathe i:
loaded with animal and vegetaI
BILE l1fe-microbe and bacillus
1.-THE latest plaything of mod!
ern scientists, exultant in thei1
discoveries as the child wh{
first sees the noon sport witt
festive JOY in the liquid w
drink, the food we eat and tn,
air we breathe-and still WI
live! And why? Because if
each individual kindly Nature
IS constantly at work protect,
ing and continuing that life
she has created. A man in fat
health has little to fear if the
water he drinks is not up to
scientific standard of purity.
In his own economy he carries
an apparatus more efficacious
than the most approved filter,
rejecting and DESTROYING ali
1mpurity. Relatively the pur
ity or impurity of the water he
drinks is of little importance
to such person. But it is the
man who is not well, in whom
the equilibrium of a healthy
physical condition is wanting,
who may dread impure water
and dread with good reason
for to him moderately good
water may become the agency
of disease and death. The very
air he breathes, and without
which he is undone, becomes a
source of menace to him.
The nervous system-espe,
cially the sympathetic nervous
system, that human storage
battery of vital force, without
which none can be physically
perfect = is the mysterious
agent to which we should con.
stantly direct our attention and
be sure of its good working
condition. If it is not, we may
well dread air, food or water,
may even apostrophize them as
did Hamlet the shade thai
crossed his vision.
BE thou spirit of health, or goblin damn'd
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blast
from he'll
And it is very easy to be sure
that this important system is
doing its proper work. Nature
at the first irregularity hangs
out danger signal, and keeps
up her efforts to call attention
until the trouble is remedied.
The man who has a headache
realizes what is meant by this.
The simpler forms of derange.
ment will be remedied by the
system without outside help
other than rest. But there are
other and more subtle signs of
weakness and arrangement
which are often overlooked, are
misunderstood on account of
ignorance of their significance.
For instance, that man OF
woman who does not sleep
soundly, or he who wakes up
morning after morning feeling
more tired than when he re-
tired, even though his sleep
has been sound; the victim who
feels day after day an aching
pain or weakness in the small
of the back or between the
shoulders; he who finds his
memory tickle as shifting
winds, or his emotions often
beyond his contro1-the dys-
peptic whose feeble and ener-
waited stomach is constantly
grumb1ing and demanding his
attention-and all symptoms
of a like characterized that
something is wrong, and are
being urged by Nature to recu-
perate-to do something to
correct the trouble.
To people in this condition,
whose nervous systems are inn
paired, come disease germs,
and in their weakened system
find an inviting home. All who
notice these danger signals
should lose no time in consult
ing a ski11ful physician, conn
petent to correctly locate the
Irritating cause of all this
trouble, and q1ick1 2 as possible
to remove it. Then all will be
well again, and no longer will
that. person be annoyed as for
merly.
There is probably no one in
the city better able to treat
these and all other forms of
nervous disease than DR.. Brin-
ley. His increasing practice
has necessitated more room
than is available athis present
quarters, corner of Hennepin
avenue and Fourth street, Min
neapolis, and during the pres
ent month his offices will be