Doctors have always expressed a poor opinion of the liver because it did not keep the bowels sweet and clean, and they mistakenly though honestly called it “the lazy liver,” “the torpid liver,” “hepatic insufficiency,” “atony of the liver,” “sluggish liver,” “hepatic torpor,” “fatty liver,” etc.; and the poor victim of proctitis and colitis was glad he had consulted the doctor and learned “just the cause” of his internal troubles--and could suffer on more reconciled to his malady since he knew its exact name and could continue to take with regularity one or more of the many powerful liver exciters, to stimulate activity in the liver and bowels once every day or two, if possible. By some strange psychological or other influence of late years, however, physicians have turned their attention to the “lazy kidneys,” and now it is difficult to decide which they are purging the most--the liver or the kidneys. At any rate, they both must be violently excited at the same time, and we hear “lithia” mentioned, or “laxative salts of lithia,” every time uric acid is thought of. Stimulate the lazy liver and kidneys, and with abundant salts dissolve out of the tissues and blood the precipitated deposits; this is the fashion of the times. Diagnosis wrong and treatment harmful! Water is by far the best agent to dissolve salt compounds, to dilute acids, or to remove filth. It is also the best means of soothing and relieving the long irritated and inflamed tissues and organs, that have had from two-thirds to three-fourths of the daily fecal mass thrust upon them and collected in them, when they are called torpid, lazy, and whipped up unmercifully by bile and urine bouncers. We ourselves would be very torpid, sluggish, or “lazy” if called upon to do the work of two persons under such embarrassing physiological circumstances as being filled with toxic substances, or thoroughly auto-intoxicated. When will common sense take the place of theories founded on guesswork, and some thorough washing out by plain or distilled water be done, internally as well as externally? After such an operation some specific remedy may be taken, if demanded, with the certainty of permanent good resulting. But remember, your aqueous body, held in its form by the skin and mucous membrane, needs a well-nigh constant stream of pure water flowing through it to keep it fresh and clean.