“I say this, most emphatically, that a half gallon or a gallon of water a day will help wash out the toxic poisons that are formed in the body, and will tend to keep a person in good health and help him resist disease.
“There is constantly being accumulated in the body not only waste matter, resulting from chemical changes taking place in the upkeep of vital energy, but also the blood takes up toxic poisons from the intestines. Unless those things are thrown off by the lungs, skin, kidneys, et cetera, we become lazy, dyspeptic, and uric acid will accumulate and cause rheumatism, kidney disorders, and other organic disturbances. Now, such conditions would be much less likely to ensue were the simple precaution taken of drinking a pint of water often throughout the day.
“Especially is this true of persons who take little exercise and who live indoors, where they breathe impure air.
“I often prescribe the slow sipping of at least a pint of hot water in the morning while dressing. This washes out the stomach, stimulates the circulation in the lungs and skin and promotes the action of the liver. If a person has a tendency to gout or rheumatism, the water-drinking habit is especially recommended.”
One physician was found who recommended the drinking of a quart of water with each meal, but the majority were opposed to drinking water while eating.
Soldiers in War, 21,770,000.
A German military authority estimates that 21,770,000 men stand opposed to each other—12,820,000 on the side of the Allies and 8,950,000 for Germany, Austria, and Turkey. On the naval side the estimates are as follows:
| Germany, | ||
| Allies. | et al. | |
| Line ships | 113 | 56 |
| Big cruisers | 87 | 17 |
| Small cruisers | 128 | 56 |
| Torpedo boats | 704 | 358 |
| Submarine | 179 | 40[A] |
| Miscellaneous | 231 | 239 |
[A] Number of new boats unknown.
The daily cost of the war to the ten nations now taking part he places at 169,000,000 marks—$42,250,000—and he estimates that up to the first of April the total cost of the war was 40,000,000,000 marks—$10,000,000,000. Italy again excepted, he placed the annual cost of such a war at $15,000,000,000.