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Chapter II: Nature’s Great Remedy.2097
Chapter II: Nature’s Great Remedy.
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t is no wonder that man in his natural state instinctively recognized in
Water a Natural Friend and Helper. The instinct regarding water runs back
much further than Man—back through the lower animals—back through
the lower forms—back through the plant life—back through the elementary
forms of life such as the amaeba, monera, and other tiny forms in the slime
of the ocean bed—back to the very beginnings of organic life itself. Science
tells us that organic life originated in water, and has always shown signs of
its place of birth. About eight-tenths of our physical body is made up of
water, and the very cells composing the body are virtually and actually
marine organisms—tiny aquatic animals in fact—capable of existence only
when surrounded by a saline solution of water. Is it any wonder then that
the instinct for Water lies at the very foundations of our subconscious life,
and manifests in our conscious wants.
And the important part played by water in our physiological mechanism
is none the less remarkable. Physiology teaches us that over one and onehalf
pints of water passes from the body in the shape of perspiration every
twenty-four hours; and that during the same time nearly three pints of
water are passed off in the shape of urine—two quarts and over in all. The
important juices of the body are composed of fluids, of which water is