The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-07-26
DRINKING WATER.
Scientists Insists That Distilled Is the Only
Perfect Kind.

Scientists Insists That Distilled Is the Only
Perfect Kind
Old age, or essifcation is the penalty
of ignorance In regard to drinking
water. Undistilled drinking water is
to the pure what raw pork Is to the
cooked. Lean pork, thoroughly cooked.
rarely proves injurious to the health,
except In the depositing of ealcareous,
or old-age, matter. Raw or half-cooked
pork is loaded with dangers to every
function of life. Raw water is equally
so. There are three kinds of food
which enter the system daily: solids.
distilled liquids. and raw liquids All
solids contain calcareous, or old-age,
material. The distilled liquids of
juicy fruits are not only free from old
age matter, but dissolve and drew off
as much calcaFeous substance as the
solid food deposits. Fruits and solid
foods, therefore, would draw off de-
crepitude and age were 1t not for the
raw water which we take. As nature
distills her water in her fruits. SO man
should take lesson and drink only dis
titled water. The latter is not only
free from calcareous, OF o1d-age. mat
ter, but, like juicy fruits, will dissolve
and carry off all such matter contained
in solid food. Nature sets us great
examples, and the time is not far dis
tant when raw water will be thing of
the barbaric past
Now do not make the mistake Of
thinking that boiled water is purified
water. It is. IN one respect. better
than the raw water-the germs of dis
ease are partly killed; but the bones
and decay-the carcasses-remain, oc-
cupying the human system as one vast
graveyard from which many awake to
gnaw at our vitals. OF course, the
microscope reveals a nenagerie of life
in drop of the purest rain water, and,
of course, the medical expert tells us
these ordinary germs are not harm
full; yet the same medical expert ad-
mits that, were the water free from
such matter, old age or the breaking
down of the organs of the body could
not occur. Millions of calcareous car
cases are deposited in the blood every
hour; they cause the blood vessels,
nerves, tissues, fbers, brain and or
gans to ossify, harden, refuse TO act,
break down and thus limit human life
mere Is net one living scientist On
physician of repute who will deny this
assertion. 1t is just dawning upon the
mind of the thinking worid-thanks to
Ralston.
What does boiling of the water &C
complish? The worlds greatest dis
tillcries are the rivers, lakes and
oceans The SIMS rays draw up
the pure in form of vapor, leaving
the sediment below. Man cannot
drink the water of the ocean, but
when it rises to the clouds and falls in
rain or snow it is pure, because IL is
distilled. A kettle of boiling water is
similar example. The steam is pure,
the residue Is the calcareous When
we drink boiled water we lose the pure
and drink the graveyard. We know
several families who, under the advice
of physicians, have drunk boiled water
for many years. every one of them is
aged far beyond the time, with wrinlxled
features, stiff joints and organic dis
ease, caused by the stoppage of the
veins and tissues by calcareous depos-
its. On the other hand. we know fam
HES who distill their water, whose
faces are smooth and young, fair and
rosy-cheeked, bearing no trace of age
or decrepitude
In the cure and prevention Of disease
the great problem of the civilized world
IS the best means Tor The dist ton Of