The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

make a long trip around the African con-
tinent. He was drinking distilled water
then and / asked him why he did so. lie
replied.
II have found that distilled water is
d sovereign cure for rheumatism, at
least as far as my own case is con-
cerned. Some years ago / was afflicted
with sciatiea and was bed ridden on ac-
count of H. The doctors could not find
anything to relieve me. The attack came
just when / was investigating certain sub
teets relating 10 the deposits of salts. One
was as to the deposits Of salts in the
human system. A well known scientist
had written a book IN which he said that
old age came from such deposits, and
that the ills OF advancing years were
due TO their elimination. This man
thought that when such deposits went
to the joints man mad rheumatism When
they went 20 the Kidneys he had kidney
trouble and stones in the urinary organs,
and when they lodged in the arteries
they produced what is called hardening OF
the arteries. In the same way, when such
deposits COATED the nerves they produced
seiatca.
AT the same time had been studying
about the Dead sea, the Great Salt lake,
and other bodies of water which have no
outlets. They are, as you know. all salt
The Dead sea is one-fourth salt and the
Great Salt lake Is loaded with salt Well.
it occurred to me that my body was
much like the Dead sea, and that il
needed less salt coming in and plenty of
ways TO get the salt out. I knew that
distilled water was pure, and with the
free nerspiration l always have I thought
that if I drank plenty of 1t I might get
rid of some of the salts which were cov-
ering my seiatic nerves l tried drink
ing it. and il worked like a charm
Within a short time my sciatlca left mo,
md
from that day to this. l have kept up
my drinking OF distilled water, and I
attribute my almost perfect health largely
TO it. When I am In the city l get 1t at
the regular water supply stores and when
I am at Baddecl1 I have a little $40 stil
with which [ make what I need"
I referred to this talk last night ana
then told DR.. Bell Of my own experiences
with distilled water, which were the re-
suit of his story. / told. him how when
I left Africa l had been urged to drink
nothing but mineral waters and how for
the first four months of my trip did so.
| started In at Gibraltar with drinking
we'll known French mineral water, and
kept this up during my travels in Moroc-
co, Algeria. Tunisia and Tripoli The
water contained considerable salts. and
the result was that when I got to Egypt.
my system was in a terrible condition.
ana / went 10 q famous Cairo doctor
and asked him what was the matter He
replied that I had .been taking In too
much salt through that water, and he adj
Wsed me to drink only the juice OF the
Nile. . 1 then told him about Dr. Belts
theory when he replied:
DIR. Bell is just right. All water which
passes through the earth has more or less
organic or inorganic substances in It, and
being already loaded, it cannot take up
the salts of the system, Distilled water
Is different 1t is pure and 1t sucks up
the salts like sponge. 1T is a magnet
which draws the salt to it and there is
no doubt but that 1t is good for rheu-
matism,"
To complete the story, when returned
home found one of my friends afflicted
with rheumatism, and persuaded him to
try the cure. He did so and within a few
weeks he was well. I recommended n
to Gen. James T. Du Bots, who had
Just been appointed United States minis
ter to Colombia and who was almost wild
with neuralgia. ] persuaded him to turn
on the distilled water and he was able
to proceed to his post I could mention
several others and suggest the prescrip-
ton to my rheumatic readers.