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demonstrated that the drinking of one quart of water with each 

 meal for a period of one week failed to produce "a single qualm of 

 Indigestion, either gastric or intestinal." Our claims are supported 

 by the habits of our aboriginal foref athers, who " lugged their f ood 

 down to the bank of the stream and facilitated the feeding process 

 by copious gulps of water"; of the captive bird, whose dietary pro- 

 cedure embraces the alternate ingestion of tiny seed and water drop; 

 of the haby at the mother's breast, who is so satisfactorily nourished 

 by a food which is 87 per cent. water; of a large number of physp- 

 cians, who have always ingested considerable water with meals, 

 although forced by a populär delusion to admonish their patients 

 otherwise; and, finally, of a vast multitude of the laity, who have 

 habitually taken water with their meals, in spite of the admonition 

 of the family physician, and who to-day bear.testimony to the effi- 

 ciency of the practice, in their freedom from digestive disturbances, 

 or who have finally died from old age or from some disorder entirely 

 unrelated to water ingestion. 



Jefferson Medical College, 

 Philadelphia 



