The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-06-17
! Drink Watsr Freely.

earth, would % itself indicate the i'm.
portance cf water. Tie human body
contains about threo-fourlhs water.
Fhile most Of the articles used as food
contain from three-fonrths to nine
tenths uatsr- In the human system
there is 40 stracturs or organ which
.dess ESss Contain water. The teeth,
the hardest and densest tiesne 50 tae
body, contains 10 per cent OF wster;
the muscles are three-quarters water;
the bones are 13 per cent water and
/ the blood is four-ffthe water. Gastric
juice is 81 per cent perspiration, SO
per cent saliya and 80 per cent water.
! The bleed ssTsam, consisting Of
about seven quarts Of fluid, circulates
through it's tubular conduits, the ar
teries, oapillariss and veins, at the
speed Of about seven miles an hour,
1853 miles per day.
The blood is in reality only solu-
tion in water Of certain matters out Of
which bya complex system Of filters
all the other fluids Of the body are
formed. In other words the blood
holds, in solution, all the elements
out Of which the gastric juice, the sal.
/ iva, the intestinal fluids, the synoyial
fluid and dozen other fluids are pro-
! duoed.
When it lie mentioned that during
twenty.four hours these wonderful
little filter cells secrate from the blood
abont from four to eight quarts Of gas
sric juice, about one quart Of saliva,
about two quarts Of intestinal and
panoreatio juice, as we'll as smaller
quantities Of many other fluids-when
this is understood some idea may be
gathered Of the immense Importance
OF water, which is, as has been said,
the real fluid Of the body, A great
authority on physiology has said:
Water is 9 very important f,od ele-
ment, as all physiologic changes take
place in wate.y solution. Water is
the medium through which the body
is nouriahed.''
! Water is constantly leaving the
body through four avenues, the skin,
the lungs. the bowels and the kidneys.
Of the total amount Of water leaving
the body about 8 per cent, or one
twentieth, is excreted through the ali
mentary tube. One-6fth, or 20 per
cent, is carried OF by the lungs in the
FORM Of aqueous yapor About one
third leaves by way Of the skin, the
fluid known as perspiration, while
nearly one half is voided by the kid
neys. The water thus carried out Of
the body Is heavily laden. with vari-
oIs poisonous mat, ers, the retention:
Of which would be not merely injuri-
ous, but fatal. For instance, the per-
aspiration contains about one-half Of 1
| Iper cent ofsurea, besides other pois-
IONS, lactateB, sudorates and inorganic
salts. The urine contains abouti2
percent Of urea, also uric acid, crea-
tin, creatinin, exanthin, tyrosin, hyp-
pufio acid, ieucin, cystin saaa sssuTin,
besides many other excrementitious
poisons. y
AS one ofthe greatest pathologists
now living said: s'The body is fac
tory Of poisons.' And upon the
ability to relieve itself Of these pois-.
ons--upon the incessant activity .of
the organs intrusted with such work
Of elimination depends not only the
health, but the very life Of the indivi-
dual. There is story to the effect
that somewhere great pageant was
given, feature Of which was beau
tiful little boy who was to pose as o
cherub. Somebody thought it would
be a good idea to cover the little boy
with gold paint, and in less than an
hour the little boy was real cherub,
that is to sny, he was dead. The
story may or may not be true. The
point is that it might have oeen true.
For to paint the skin and thus obstruct
che pores Of the skin would mean the
retention Of a quantity Of poison sufii-
oient to cause death in very short
time. l9,.
Now from the foregoing we see that
all the vital processes take place in q
watery solution, and that the excre-
tion Of the waste poisons OF the body
is accomplished by a process Of wash
ing out with water through the four
avenues OF elimination known as skin,
lungs, bowels and kidneys.
From what has been said it can
raadily be underetood why it is that,