Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1875 — Drinking Water. [ARTICLE]

Drinking Water.

Dr. Hall is opposed to the immoderate drinking of water. He says: The longer outputs off drinking water in the morning, especially in the summer, the less he will require during the day; if much is drank during the forenoon the thirst often increases, and a very unpleasant fullness is observed, in addition to a metallic taste in the mouth. The less a man drinks the better for him, beyond a moderate amount. The more water a man drinks the more strength he has to expend in getting rid of it, for all the fluid taken into the system must be carried out; and as there is but little nourishment in water, tea, coffee, beer and the like, more strength is expended in carrying them out of the system than they impart to it. The more a man drinks the more he must perspire, either by lungs or through the skin; the more he perspires the more carbon is taken from the system; but this carbon is necessary for nutrition, hence the less a man is nourished the less strength he has. Drinking water largely diminishes the strength in two ways, and yet many are under the impression that the more water swallowed the more thoroughly is the system “ washed out.” Thus, the less we drink at meals, the better for us. If the amount were limited to a single cup of hot tea or hot milk and water at 6 each meal, an immeasurable good would result to all. Many persons have fallen into the practice bf drinking several glasses of cold water, or several cups of hot tea or coffee, at meals, out of mere habit; all such will be greatly benefited by breaking it up at once; it may be very well to drink a little at each meal, and, perhaps, it will be found that in all cases it is much better to take a single ’ cup of hot tea at each meal than a glass of coldw’ater, however pure.