Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-04-29
HINTS ON CARDIAC DrsEAsE--No. =

HINTS ON CARDIAC DISEASE--NO. =.
Repatriation of the blood results from weakness
constructed. In condition of health, that they allow
the ud g pass and then close up as to prevent s
this exists the circulation Is measurs6y affected and
result the heart Is strained and worried and other
forms q o. disease ultimately follow ~ come cases
quantity oSood in the kua Soay vares In
ave pounds in healthy adult H Of medium SIZE Tie
time alss for the passage Of the blood through the
divduals, dependent upon size and health, the cond
ton OF the heart lungs and brain, the amount and
lar motion Probably about six minutes may be Con-
sidered as enc average period although many writer's
Claim that 1t Ia effected In three minutes.
Few persons says Dr. Laenneck aware ofthc prin
cipal or primary causes OF heart affections. Among
them are too closely fitting wearing apparel astooping
nos ion ofthe left lung causing an undue
on some part Of the organ; congestion Of the
lunks or hearts thick or impure blood too thin blood
~ in case Of general dropsy scroua, clcgging the
blood; repellcd measles; scarlet fever and eruptive
constantly -dschargng assesses; mlkleg; varicose
Veins fever sores ana many other conditions of dis
sudden or gradual and permanent arrangement and
Heart.dropsy is by far the most common form OF
heart disease The testimony and experience OF prsc
titioners ofhgn repute tho medical Journals and the
hospital reports, and my own observation, warrant
person tends to impede The circulation BY restraining
the mechanical action of the heart. This organ must
have room TO expand and contract. 1t throws two
and half ounces OF blood at each pusaton when the
ting clothing, the quantity IA abridged, disease
or later follows. DR.. Parker OF New York, in work
whose clothing was so tightly hed to her perso that
fainting resulted, and, although she remove to
the open air and her corset aces cut the action Of
heart was suspended for an hour She died of heart
dropey In less than year. Another lady sin l.
larry attacked In church. and remained In condition
OF suspended animation for seven hours. When she
revived she declared that during the period Of her In.
senslbity she had been with her sister who died ten
years before, and expressed wish for weeks after
perenccs From this attack tho heart began to be
oppressed, and there were palptaton, shortncss OF
breath and symptoms of WAGER, and In little more
than year she swooned away, and was dead In few
minutes Upon post norton examination It WAS
found that the water had covered the heart aud
dered it unable to perform rs functions A case IL
reported by DR.. Dungson In his clinical lectures,
where person mad fractured his hip and injured his
spine, who was kept his left side Tor several weeks
the region OF the heart. Fanncss smofhering suifo
eating sensation followed, water rapidly accumulated
and in less than two years sudden death resulted In
the fact that death WAS caused BY dropy Of the heart
Hcpatized lungs disease II the same manner ~
heart In condition OF health so and spongy, al
lowing that organ the greatest freedom Of action.
hut when they are hepatized or differentiated or hard
ened from any cause 40 interfere with the proper
action Of the heart, feversh condition of the perl
cardium heart-case results, which prevents its
the percardium. Causing sesrtdropsy. A STOPPING 1s
figure acts 10 precisely the same way because It hin
ders and prevents the hearts action. Hospital re-
and shoemakers are sudden and early, and in almost
every case post mortem examination reveals some
disease Of the heart which had Its origin In the stoop
Ing position OF these mechanics while ut work. N:
Bizat states In his hospital reports that workmen
whose business requiresa constantly STOPPING position
and sudden death from heart diseases.
TO be continued BY N. 3. Dodge, ii. d.