The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-23
AVOID APPENDICITIS
DRINK ALL THE WATER you CAN
Suggestion" Tells Why the Upper
Glasses Are Ill and the Working PEG.
pie Keep WeII-Water Panacea for
All Ills

A little magazine called Suggestion
fully warrants its name as it is full of
suggestive things which. if not new, at
least are put in such way that one
obtains fresh light on old subjects. In
the current number there is a helpful
article which tells of a remedy for ap-
pendicitis, news of which will be of
great value to everyone save the med
ical and surgical profession. The ar
ticle begins by telling that the writer
has noticed how full the papers are of
accounts of persons suffering from
this trouble or just recovering from an
operation for appendicitis, which, he
further says, is a disease almost wholly
confined to the upper classes. Work
ing people rarely have this malady,
which shows how exceedingly fortu-
nate it is to be working person.
The author of this Illuminating ar
ticle says that the trouble with the
whole human race is that they do not
drink enough. Shades of Carrie Ma
toni We hasten to inform the anxious
reader, however, that although this
magazine is not managed by the w. G..
Il. L., wafer is meant by the foregoing,
and not liquor. The writer goes on to
say that a full-grown person requires
two quarts of liquids every twenty
man system becomes upset and all
sorts of alarming things take place
further the cause given for lack of
appendicitis among the working classes
is that as they perspire freely they
naturally drink a great deal of fluid
and thus avoid that strange condition
of the little appendix which makes it's
presence inside of us so dangerous.
There is nothing particularly new
about this water treatment save in it's
application or use to prevent appendi-
citis. The writer declares that he has
questioned scores of persons who have
suffered from the dread and fashion,
able disease and has never failed to
find that it obtained with those who
drank but little.
Once there was a woman who came
to st. Paul to tell women how to be
beautiful and we'll, and she strongly
advised the cold water cure. She
claimed to be seventy, but nobody be-
lieved her, whereas if she had said she
was forty every woman who heard her
would have. mentally decided she was
seventy. But whatever her age, she
was a splendid specimen of health and
strength, and this she believed she
owed to the drinking of cold water.
She said she drank seven quarts a day.
Several quarts before breakfast, and
more quarts during the day and before
she retired at night. She advised
washing ones face with q cucumber,
drinking water and physical culture
Every woman in town went to work to
follow her advice and did it most Wig
orously for a few weeks, but when the
teacher left they fell back into their
old ways, and SO it is Quite impossible
to know whether they would all have
become dreams of beauty had they kept
it up. But this theory of cold water
drinking to prevent appendicitis
sounds plausible and is certainly
cheaper than operations and hospitals,
not to mention the doctors and nurses
bills.
1t has been said that babies suffer the
most for water, as nurses and mothers
seldom remember to give them drink.
But grown persons, too, we find. need
it, and those of US who drink but little
water, and then only at meals. should
give this suggestion a trial and try to
avoid that most unpleasant operation
even though we lose our social stand
ing thereby.