Show J r W Water at R Really al Chief chii L 1 I Constituent of Body j Water Vater Is a n more Important substance sub Kub i stance than we e are Inclined to admit admit- Besides its value ulue as ns a beverage Its utility as a home for fish its function I as a common carrier of the tho worlds world's I shipping its use as a n washing gashing medium it It plays plas an fin Important role in human life as the chief constituent of the body The human body is approximately two-thirds two water An average person of 1501 pounds weight carries around with him nt at all times about pounds or 1 12 gallons of water This water supply Is cry very delicately adjusted ad nd justell so that the intake c of water and the water resulting from oxidative processes balances the losses occurring occur occur- ring rind from the various arious excretory proc esses This compensatory balance sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times fails fulls The extremes of mali mal mal- i regulation emulation which result are arc represented represent ed cd by hy thirst and on the theone theone theone one hand and edema on the other SI Skelton of U the e University of Minnesota Minnesota Min found that the muscles contain con can talc tain about half of the total water supply supply sup sup- ply of ot the bod body the s1 skin Jn about one one- fifth firth and the watery blood only about one-fourteenth one of or the total When marked loss or withdrawal withdrawn of water r from the bod body occurs the resultant drying up Is taken care of ot principally by hy the muscles anti and not IJ by the blood The he muscles lo lose e only a n small proportion proportion i tion of their water wat even In the extreme extreme ex cases and the loss per unit of or weight is smaller than for other or organs organs or- or gans pans hut but the total Is larger because of the large capacity of the muscular system |