The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-23
DRINK PLENTY OF WATER.
Physicians Declare a Gallon a Day
Will Insure Good Health.

"A gallon a day will keep the doc
tor 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 1t
is good to drink water with meals,
the majority believing that food
should not be washed down with Ii
quids, but should be thoroughly
chewed and mixed with saliva, which
is an aid to digestion. But several
doctors who were asked ABOUT it as
serted that it was good to drink even
as much as a quart of water with
meals.
All of the seven doctors who were
interviewed about the benefits of wa
ter drinking agreed that the copious
drinking of water was preventative
of disease, and they had known
many cases in which health was re-
stored by the drinking Of water in
large quantities. One doctor advo-
Gated the drinking of as much as
three gallons of water day in very
warm weather, reducing the amount
when the weather is cooler, but never
drinking less than gallon day.
"Why,' said this physician, two
thirds of the weight Of the body is
water. In very warm day in Au-
gust an average man who is at work
will perspire from two to six quarts
of water a day. Where is it all COM
ing from if you don't drink it? Many
poisons generated by the body are
exuded through the pores Of the skin
in perspiration. Many persons think
they 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. It
is almost impossible to drink too
much water"
Another doctor said: 81 saw a
short article in the Star the other
evening quoting an eminent medi-
cal authority as saying that all
girls and women who wished to. have
good complexion should. drink two
quarts of water a day. I would dou-
BILE that and advise them to drink
four quarts a day. Give the boy
plenty of pure water, inside and out
side, gallon IA day inside, thor
ough. bathing of the whole body at
least once day, fresh air at all the
times, night and day, and plenty of
exercise, preferably by outdoor walk
ing, and you can't very well be sick.
If every one would do that one-half
the doctors would have to seek some
other business. If every woman
would do that the rouge and COM
plexion powder factories would shut
down. There is nothing so good as
plenty of water drunk every day for
the complexion
A physician said: II am not claim
ing that the drinking of plenty of
water is a preventative of all dis
eases; that would be misleading and
silly, but 1 will say this: I. have
cured several bad cases of stomach
ailments with water alone. In those
cases the patients were in the habit
of drinking very little water. I pre-,
scribed a quart Of water before
breakfast each morning and a gallon
drunk throughout the day, and a
quart on going to bed at night. =
worked a cure in each case.
81 say this, most emphatically, that
a half-gallon or a gallon of water
day will help wash out the toxic pois-
sons that are found in the body, and
will tend to keep 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 intestines.
Unless those things are thrown off
by the lungs, skin,, kidneys, etc., we
become lazy, dyspeptic and uric acid
will accumulate and cause rheuma-
tism, kidney disorder and other or
ganic disturbances. Now such con-
ditions would be much less likely 70
ensue were the simple precaution
taken of drinking a pint of water Of
ten througout the day.
ESPECIALLY is this true of persons
who take little exercise and who live
indoors, where they breathe impure
air.