Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-08-10
Diseases of the Heartily Dr.. Price.

four apartments or cavltes It's right and lett
Gle or muscular bag, and right and left ventrcle or
cavity. Ii is considered the centre of circulation
Ofits muscular power may have same concep-
ton when We consider that in mantiie whole guam
tity of blood is estimated at about % pounds and
that ut every pulsatOn, (Which if regular il about
IS per minute) ounce of blood passes through it.
Upon this calculation, 6 pounds 3 ounces of blood
pass through the heart to the lungs every minute
of our lives, (this assertion is however, made on
mere coniecure.) Ii is very certain that all the
blood in The body passes through the heart and
lungs at least every ten minutes-six times every
hour--and, upon average, IA times every twenty
four hours, frem our earliest infancy to decrept
and childish old age.
What mysterious, enigmatical and complicated
beings We are. How inconceivablel how intricate !.
how complex is the supcrnal machinery of our Or
ganizition! Well my the intelligent and reflect.
ing mind look with astonshment and veneration
upon the sublimitv, power and wisdom ofthe great
Architect of Nature.
In every piece of mechanical ingenuity however
simple Oh complex may be its structure, we find, as
indispensable to the whole, at least great point
of attraction or repulsion; so in the human frame
we designate the heart in its simple operations
to be the vital organ. which, by its energy AMI ac
ton gives TO every fibre of the frame principle
peculiar to its immediate function. 1t is the
slant spring, fountain, which, emptying itself uto
those thousand little streams OF the BODY trayer-
ses the whole system and impars that vigor and
amin tion so indGbitable to the miintenance ard
support OF life. This central organ--this sole
power--which circulates the blood, is as liable
to disease as the osher organs of the body
There is no disease to which the huuan
frame is subject more intense and violent
than a functional affection of the heart; and
indeed so dreadful are some of the sensations at
tending il, that patient, laboring under its inau
ence, described it as a dreadful sensation, sap
preaching to a feeling of annihiatOn.' far sur
passing any degree Of pun. | am not able here to
render a complete analysis of the symptoms in at
tendance on this complaint but will mention the
more prominent of them that occur in the early
stages of the disease.
An oppression and difficulty of breathing often
amounting to sufocltion or feelings of approaching
death. Sometimes pain is felt over the re- lions
of the heart, palpitatiOBs, rapid beating futtcr
ing motion, feeling OF tightness across the chest
or distress. with short breath which is increased
upon exerlion especially when walking an as
cent or going up pair of stairs, headache. cold
feet and hands, face pale ut times al other times
flushed, GddincSS, ringing or buZzing in the elrs,
iantness, shvern =, neSe bleedings and nunhnesS.
The side over the region of the heart sometimes
cnlarges pulse interrupted often stops beating for
some seconds, sleep confused and painful, with un
peasi INT dreams and sudden star.ings. bowels of
ten irregular, urine high colored. The patient is
irritable, melancholy, restless. fretfu subject to
fits of passion. easily excited and when SO often
unable speak. quickly fatgucd, anxious, nervous
and noti)nal. Palpitaii9n' OF the heart do not oc
cur in any one case no,all Of the above symptoms.
but less are present in every case in the
commencement of the disease. becoming more and
more dreadful rs the disease advances, terminating
often whcE the patient is feeling most well in sud-
den death. From the great number of cases that
! daily encounter, am fully convinced that dis
of the heart next in frequency to diseases
of the lungs.
The incessant play of the passions, which are cx-
citable to a high degree. are calculated to produce
many disarrangcments in the hellthy action OF this
organ 1t is Justly remarked that local operations
have no small degree of weight in the formation
of this disease for there is no point in the human
character that cannot be swayed by circumstances.
The mind ever streich-the passions raised to
high degree OF intensity. is prolific source, from
which this disease is esAeeialy to be expected
The violent asitation3 OF the body causing the
blood = course the human frame with accelerated
force, and the dis,cntion of the heart, with in
ordinate quantity of blood, which, when impure, if
it be n overcome by some potent remedy but too
frequently forms into a seated disease, ,eventuatng
in death. Whatever tends TO OyerwOrk the heart
thereby producing interruptions, also diminution
of poweraSill occasion this disease. indulgences
in Intoxicating liquors. long continued use OF stmu
lants tobacco, unnatural drains upon the system,
tense study, mental depression, application of the
mind with little or no bodily exercise, great ankle
ty to be rich, running in debt, working, frettng,
trying to pay interest, causing yexaOns, trouble
and diSap9Oih ailments, &c, &c. 1t does not appear
to Us at all consistent with the character OF the
disease TO assert thit it is capable of being trans
mtted to the offspring of any person, who may
have been affected by it; for as it is often produc
ed by violent transitions from a mental quietuile
ia of nh
hereditary tendency. This alone be brought
about by such affections as have radical chlrac.
ter. In the early period OF this affection, remedial
agents can be used that will arrest its progress
Ii is the inability of the heart to circulate the blood
with that freedom which the organization of the
animal economy requires. that is the cause of dis
eases of the heart. And with this view of the
subject every means should be used for the purpose
of facilitating the circulation of the blood."-
When the disease has been long neglected and the
heart itself 6xedly implicated. cure is seldom if
ever attained. the disease most invariably has n
sudden and fatal termination. The necessity of
attending to the first symptoms OF disease so sure
in its progress destroy life. cannot but be seen
by all. l am per>uing system of treatment for
the cure Of all chronic complaints that is of far
different character from that usually entertared--
one which satisfied cannot fail TO recommend
itself 10 the common sense Of every unpreudiced
and intelligent individual, who will candidly exer
else reason and common sense. There some
individuals so stereotyped in their dogmatical
prejudice that they cannot believe that ssny dis
covery or Improvement in medicine can originate,
except within the precincts of their regular insti-
tutions. A physician who is successful in curing
lingering diseases must be a correct, liberal miud-
ed man, and dare 10 treat disease according to
what it nav require, even If il should deviate from
the established rules of the dark ages The light
of science at the present day, directs us to the re-
moval of causes, and to the laboratory Of the
Vegetable Kingdom for the constituents of the
reparative process. | lave my regular places of
appointments. which places have visited for the
last FIVE years. and which for years shall continue
to visit, treating exclusively chronic diseases.
shall be for consultation, upon all chronic all
mens. on my next visit to Laporte, during Sunday
and Monday, the 9th and 2Sth of August. Rooms
at the Parker House,
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