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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. PROPERTIES AND USES OF WATER. A Plentiful supply of good water should be a sine qvA non at all health resorts, without which there cannot possibly be enjoyment of good health, for water forms an important item in all the tissues of the body, even of the hardest and driest, muscle containing 70 per cent., the saliva in the mouth possessing 98-45 per cent., the gastric juice of the stomach 98-7 per cent., the gall 86 per cent., the juice of the pancreas, or sweetbread, 98-5 per cent., the intestinal fluid 97 per cent., chyle 90 per cent., lymph 96 per cent., milk about 88 per cent., mucus 95 per cent., and perspiration 99 per cent. (Dr. Braun). A constant fluctuation takes place between the blood and the secretions, water being separated from the blood for the secretions and afterwards absorbed back again. Large quantities of water are also taken from the body by the lungs, skin, and kidneys, which necessitates a constant supply from without.It is by some people believed that the more water they drink, the more they will perspire, but this idea is not altogether correct, ior warmth of temperature is absolutely necessary for perspiration, without which people will not perspire, no matter how much water they drink. Drinking is merely the process by which the continued supply of material is kept up for the diaphoresis produced by heat and muscular exertion. Thus in warm climates, where perspiration is carried on very profusely, it is most necessary for people to have a plentiful and good supply of water, and the health resort that cannot supply this valuable commodity must not calculate upon having very large patronage. The value of water regularly applied to the skin cannot be overestimated, especially in warm climates, and until the people give up their superstitiou...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217004138
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021700413X
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr

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