Show MINERAL WATERS why and how they that drink them when a patient reached a mineral water resort he is examined by the physician and ordered to drink certain quantities cf the water at certain times during tho day these ara increased from day day until he maximum quantity needed is reached he ia ordered to drink one or two glass fuls upon rising two or three glasses between breakfast and dinner the same quantity in the afternoon and a comple of glasses before going to bed the patient is urged to take it whether bo wants it or not may say that bo ia not thirsty but that makes no difference he must take it a medicine the quantity is increased until we have known 80 glasses per day to bo taken A part of the benefit derived is because of the rest and change of scene A part perhaps 1 from the small quantity of the salts and other bases contained in these waters wo are not speaking of cathartic or chalybeate waters but the benefit from this source is very slight the secret of the cure is in the quantity of water taken if the water be pure free from organic matter and in sufficient quantity the results will be substantially the dame regardless gard less of the traces of lithia and small quantities of sodium chloride and other salts you can perform these cures at home with tho ordinary drinking water if of good quality it you will require tho patient to take it iu abo same quantity as at tho springs it is very easy to add lithia it desired but yon must not icso eight cf tho fact that the quantity of water not lithia taken is the important thing it acts by flooding the kidneys by washing out the bladder with a copious bland and dilute urine by unclogging the liver and clearing tho brain tho patient feels better from day to day bo is better irritable bladder is relieved the kidneys act freely are washed out and many effete substance are carried out with the flood this clears the way for the liver to act freely and normally tor there is nn intimate relation between the liver and kidneys new york ledger |