Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1920 — DRINK ONLY WHEN THIRSTY [ARTICLE]

DRINK ONLY WHEN THIRSTY

Physician Decries Having Any Sot .Time for the Taking of Liquid Into the System. No rules for water drinking can be laid down, but the best guide Is the thirst of the individual, according to Dr. John O. Hemmeter of Baltimore, in an address at a meeting of the American Therapeutic association. Our bodies have a reservoir tn which much water is stored; this is in the tissues underlying the skin and in the muscles. The blood and lymph contain about three and a half quarts of water. In the course of a day about two quarts of gastric Juice, from one and a half'to two quarts of saliv< one and a half quarts of pancreatic Juice, and intestinal Juices In quantities that have been estimated variously at between two and eight quarts, are secreted. Thus a man secretes altogether about eight quarts of digestive Juices every day; yet he has only from three to four quarts of blood and lymph. The mystery of whence the water comes and whither It goes Is solved when we learn that the reservoirs under the skin supply It and reabsorb It When we are thirsty It means that the supply in the reservoirs Is running low. Perspiration disposes of much of this water, and by evaporation keeps the body cool. Physical work or exercise produces much heat pnd if a man who performs it cannot perspire his' temperature goes up rapidly. ,