The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-08-27
DRINK PLENTY OF WATER.
Physicians Declare a Gallon a Day
Will Insure Good HEALTH.
Kansas City Star.

"a gallon day will keep the doctor
away"
That is what a physician of this
city said when asked if it was a good
thing to drink much water.
Doctors disagreed about whether it
is good to drink water witt meals, the
majority believing that food should not
be washed down with liquids, but
should be thoroughly chewed and mix
ed with saliva, which is an aid to di-
gestion. But several doctors VITO were
asked about it yesterday asserted that
it was good to drink even as much as
quart of water with meals.
All of the seven doctors who were in
ter9iewed about the benefits of water
drinking agreed that the copious
drinking of water was preventive
of disease, and they had known many
cases in which health was restored by
the drinking of water in large quanti
ties. One doctor advocated the drink
| ing of as much as three gallons of
! water a day in very warm weather,
reducing the amount when the weather
is cooler, but never drinking less than
gallon day.
"W5y," said this physician, two
thirds of the weight of tae body is
water. In very warm day in August
an average man who is at work will
perspire from two to six quarts of
water a day. Where is it all coming
from if you don't drink it? Many
poisons generated by the body are ex-
uded through the pores of the skin
in perspiration. Many persons t:ink
taey are not perspiring unless they
can see beads Of water on the skin.
But we perspire at all times, walking
and sleeping, and we do not see it be-
cause it evaporates Immediately. 1t
is almost impossible to drink too much
water
Another doctor said: Il saw short
article in the Star the other evening
quoting an eminent medical authority
as saying that all girls and women
! VINO wished to have good complexion
should drink two quarts of water
day. l would double that and advise
them to drink four quarts a day. Give
the boy plenty of pure water, inside
and outside, gallon day inside,
thorough bathing of the whole body at
least once day, fresh air all the time,
night and day, and plenty of exercise,
preferably by outdoor walking, and
you can't very we'll be sick. If every
one would do that one-half the doctors
would have to seek some other busi-
ness. If every woman would do that
the rouge and complexion powder fac
tories would shut down. There is moth
ing so good as plenty of water drunk
every day for the complexion
A p ysician said: 81 am not claim
ing that the drinking of plenty of wa
ter is a preventive of all diseases; that
would be misleading and silly, but l
will say this: I have cured several
, badj cases of rheumatism and many
cases of stomach ailments with water
alone. In those cases the patients
were in the 1abit of drinking very lit
tie water. l prescribed quart of wa
ter before breakfast each morning and
gallon drunk throughout the day,
and quart on going to bed at night.
1t worked a cure in each case.
81 say this, most emphatically, that
half-gallon or a gallon of water
day will help wash out the toxic
poisons that are found in the body, and
will tend to keep a person in good
health and help him resist disease.
There is constantly being accumu-
lated in the body not only waste mat
ter, resulting from CHEMICAL changes
taking place in the upkeep of the vital
energy, but also the blood takes up
toxic poisons from the iutestines. I'm
less those things are thrown off by
the lungs, skin, kidneys, etc., we be-
come lazy, dyspeptic and uric acid will
accumulate and cause rheumatism,
kidney disorder and otner organic dis
turbances. Now such conditions
would be much less likely to ensue
were the simple precaution taken OF
drinking pint of water often through
, out the day.
Especially is this true Of persons
who take little exercise and who live