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Chapter XII: The Irrigation of the Body.1827
addition to this there is a moderate quantity (average ten to fifteen ounces)
given off by the lungs in exhalation during the same time. Besides a certain
amount passes off through the excretions from the bowels. And a small
amount is passed from the system in the shape of tears, and other secretions
and excretions of the body. Now, how much water is needed to renew this
waste? Let us see. A certain amount of fluids is taken into the system with
the food, particularly when certain kinds of food are eaten. But this is only
a comparatively small portion of what has been thrown off from the system
in its cleansing functions. The best authorities agree that from two quarts to
five pints of water is the amount necessary to be taken daily by the average,
normal man and woman, in order to make up the waste. If that amount is
not supplied to the body it will withdraw fluids from the system until the
person assumes that “dried-up” state of which we have spoken, with the
consequence that all the physical functions are impaired, the persons being
“dried-up” inside as well as on the surface—the machinery of the body being
deprived of its lubricating and cleansing material.
Two quarts a day! Just think of that, you people who have been taking
about one pint, or even less, each day! Do you wonder why you are afflicted
with an sorts of bodily ailments. No wonder you are dyspeptic, constipated,
bloodless, nervous and generally all out of sorts. Your bodies are filled
with all sorts of poisonous substances which Nature has not been able to
eliminate and throw off through the kidneys and skin, because you have
shut off her water supply. No wonder your colons are filled with impacted
waste matter, which is poisoning your system, and which Nature has been
unable to pass off in the regular way because you did not give her water
with which to flush her sewers. No wonder that your saliva and gastric juices
are deficient—how do you suppose Nature can manufacture them without
sufficient water? No wonder your blood is deficient in quantity—where do
you suppose Nature is going to get the fluids from to make the blood? No
wonder that your nerves are out of condition, with all this abnormal going
on. Poor Nature does the best she can, even though you be foolish. She