Show using liquids at meal A great deal of misapprehension la is often found to exist in the popular mind in regard to matters of eating and drinkin drinking gt the cause of this to some extent la to be traced to old time sayings which have como come down to us in the form of a concentrated infusion of opinion upon a subject of which be he or she was woefully ignorant oneff one of these misapprehension ml to which we may refer ill as to the injuriousness rious ness of taking fluid with meals one frequently hears it laid down 0 ma 14 A maxim that it Is bad to drink with your meals it dilates dilutes the gastric juice by way WRY ot of explanation we may remark that it implies that the auld fluid taken is harmful harm fill whence this sagacious postulate originally came we cannot tell it baa has quite the ring about it of an inconsequent deduction formed by a person wl whose lose presumption ot of knowledge was only exceeded by a lamentable ignore ignorance nce of the subject medical men often find much difficulty in dealing with these museum specimens of antiquated science tor for even educated person persona are disposed to cling to the absurdities ot of their youth medical press |