Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-08
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WATER, ELIXIR OF LIFE.
Tho Internal Bath Far More Essential to Bodily
Well Being Than the External One.

Well Being Than the External One.
The vast majority of us drink
water simply because we are impelled
to do so by the sense of thirst, with
out considering it's necessity in the
maintenance of health. Yet all
thoughtful medical men must agree
with the well-known dietician, who
says that drinking not enough water
is the greatest and most common of
dietetic errors" To fully understand
why the oriission of liberal amount
of drinking water is so grave crime
against the laws of health we must
understand what water can do in the
prevention of disease; and to realize
this fully we must know the function
of drinking water in health.
A most scientific and discriminate
ing professor in physiology asked his
advanced class the chief use of water
to the body, and he was well satisfied
with the simple and practical answer,
"to wash the body out" The Gin
ternal BATH is far more essential to
health than the "external BATH" Just
as much more important as the in
terpal organs are to it than the skin,
and it must be obvious that for
cleansing these organs, pure, clean
water is essential
There is a pei 'tua' water famine
in most human 8. .ns, condition
of things to which is accorded the
responsibility of the sad fact that the
delicate flower of human youth and
beauty 80 soon fade away. The
most amateurish gardener needs no
lessons on the value of water for the
welfare of his plants, but few indeed
are the keepers of the priceless bios
SONS of human life who realize the
necessity for the same delicious
draughts of supporting vitality.
Women in particular abhor the
simple glass of water, slipping tea,
cupful after cupful, doting upon
their breakfast coffee, but of water
quaffing not a drop for days, even in
summer; preferring the sugary
pleasures of the soda counter to
offering their scorched throats a
swallow of refreshing water.
The correct, adequate performance
of. every function of the body de-
pends upon the quantity and quality
of water taken into the system daily.
If the water is scanty or impure,
every organ is retarded, the free cir
culation of the blood through the
microscopic capillary tubes, one of
life's most important processes, is
seriously interfered with, the depu-
ration through various organs and
channels of excretion and secretion
impeded. Hence slow certain poi
soning of the system ensues.
Water, while continually passing
from the body, always carries with it
more or less waste, worn-out poison
GUS matters, which constantly gene
rate in the system, as well as injuri-
Gus PARTICLES introduced from with
out. every expelled breath is laden
with watery vapor containing impu~
rites. Insensible perspiration thrown
off with countless impure particles
passes out through the skin. The
same is true of the kidneys and other
channels of elimination, the vehicle
for cleansing any part of the body
being always water. The process is
similar to that of cleansing spoiled
aponge, the thoroughness being pro
portionate with the quantity and
purity of the water, the rapidity also
depending on the same factors.
AS nutritive factor water plays
an equally important role in the sys-
TEN. The fact that it constitutes
nearly three -fourths of the human
body is alone positive proof of this
statement. Blood contains 80 per
cent of water, muscles rs per cent,
brain nearly 80 per cent, gastric
juice 973 per cent, saliva S93 per
cent, bones ID per cent, and even the
teeth 10 per cent. Insufficient water
supply, therefore, means a lack
everywhere in the constitution which
water alone can furnish.
Pure water also makes most power
fully for long life in its character oc
a solvent, distilled water being un-
questionably the greatest solvent
known.
GA man is as old as his arteries"
is the dictum of renowned French
Psychologist. Now what is it that
makes the arteries old2 Blood ves-
sells, young and healthy, are extern
sively elastic, permitting the blood
to circulate through them freely.
But in old-age they become hard and
unyielding, with diminished capacity
and smaller blood stream flowing
through with less swiftness. This
change is effected by the deposits in
the blood cells, with the walls of
blood vessels, of flbrinous and gela-
tinous substances, lime and other
earthly comnounda contained in the