Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1882 — Drinking While Working. [ARTICLE]

Drinking While Working.

Men in health perspire freely when vigorously at work on warm days. Very hc:.vy sweating may sometimes arise from weakness; a dry skin may indicate disorder. Evaporation from the surface carries off heat and keeps the body cool. A larger supply of drinking water is required for the warm haying and harvest days, but much less than is commonly supposed. Half a pint of water, sipped slowly, will assuage thirst much more effectively than a quart gulped down. A different temperature in two adjacent portions of the body produces congestion. A pint of cold fluid of any kind thrown into the stomach may result in more or less congestion; serious illness, and not infrequently deaths, arise from this cause. If ice water is taken at any time, it should always be swallowed so slowly that the stomach can warm each gill before taking another. As to the kinds of drink, the positive teachings of medical science, and experience, indicate that pure water is by far the best fluid for assuaging thirst, and supplying the wants of the system. Beers, ale, sweetened drinks, or any fluid that contains material that must be digested, are a tax upon the stomach, and tend to disorder the system. If taken at all it should be only with other food. Pure water is absorbed at once into the blood, and is carried directly to those parts of the body where it is needed. If the water is bad, it may usually be corrected by the addition of a little ginger extract ; too much of this produces constipation; but on this account it may be used more freely in looseness of the bowels. All alcoholic drinks are unhealthful for one in active exercise. They stimulate increased effort—effort beyond one’s natural strength—and unnatural exhaustion inevitably follows. Just as far as one raises himself above a normal condition by alcoholic stimulants, just so far below this condition will he surely sink a few hours after, and the elevating and depressing operation wears upon and disorganizes the machinery of the body. —American Agriculturist. The Carson City (Nev.) Appeal says: St. Jacobs Oil is good for rheumatism, neuralgia and a thousand different ills.