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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GROUP XI . See also:Wales.—See also:Water acts directly as a diluent and solvent. It therefore increases all the secretions, especially those of the skin and kidneys, while it also stimulates the See also:general See also:metabolism of the See also:body and the See also:excretion of nitrogenous products. See also:Mineral See also:waters See also:act in the same way, but their effects are very much modified by, and depend largely upon, other constituents, such as alkaline salts, See also:iron, See also:arsenic, sulphides, carbonic See also:acid, &c.

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