Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1920 — DRINK ONLY WHEN THIRSTY [ARTICLE]

DRINK ONLY WHEN THIRSTY

Physician Decries Having Any Bet Timo 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 j Dr. John C. Hemmeter of Baltimore, in an address st a meeting of the American Therapeutic association. Our bodies have a reservoir in 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 sallvN one and a half quarts of pancreatic juice, and intestinal Juice* In quaptitiea that have been estimated variously at between two and eight quarts, gpß esernted. Thus a man secrete* altogether about eight quarts of digestive juices every day; yet be baa only from three to four quarts of blood and lymph. Th* mystery of whence the water comas and whither it goes is solved when we learn that the reservoirs under the skin supply It and reabsorb IL When we ar* thirsty it means that the supply In the reservoirs is runnihg low. Perspiration disposes of much of this water, and by evaporation keeps the body cool. Physical work or exercise produces much heat and if a man who performs It cannot perspire his temperature goes up rapidly.