The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22

Matter .of-faet solution of Sentiment
Problems

EIoplems.
"A healthy man or women does not die Of
broken heait." u well-known physician
said. "A healthy heart is only big mus.
Gle, ana nobody can have grief enough 10
break II. When, therefore, a blooming
young widow shows apparently inconciey-
able grief at the death Of
her husband, and in a short time re.
covers her eqaanimity, she ought not to be
accused of hypocrisy. Neither may it be
concluded that another widow, who soon
pines and dies, has had more affection for
her husband than the first. The first widow
may have had even more affection than tho
other, but have been sustained by physical
health.
IL Is erroneous to suppose that death py
heart disease Is always sudden. IL is yery
commonly protracted for years, and exists
undetected by most skilltul physicians only
to be developed by some sudden occur
renee, There was an eminent physician of
BROOKLYN, IN active practice, who died
within an hour of time when he
was about to lecture. He was so well
that after examination by skillful phy.
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policy for $4,000 insurance on his lila
reached his home before his body was cold
The cause ofhis death was a mystery until
a post-mortem examination, by DR.. John
Il. johnson, of Brooklyn, showed that a lit
tie piece OF chalky deposit in the heart had
become loosened anu formed an embo-
ism, The man had simply taken some
specimens out OF his desk, and he died in
hls chair without any excitement or undue
effort. Any little excitement might have
done it. The exertion of grief might have
done II, and then his death would have
been cited as that from broken heart.
"So-called deaths from broken hearts NAV
De frequently traced in this way. One
eNertlon as well as another may furnish
the requisite elimination. Medical books
are filled with instances of death NV
heart disease during the perform
ance OF pleasurable natural functions.
when men is nearly dead it is easy TO nut
on MN the finishing stroke, but it is mac
curate to give the finishing stroke all the
blame OF his death. When woman loses
her husband, or girl loses her lover, and
ny nervous exhaustion, loss of slepp lack of
nourishment, and grief, weakens the action
OF her heart, she is said TO die of a broken
heart, but she has in TACT died of a very or
binary disease.
me case OF Dlll Foole, living for days
with ball IN his heart, is often spoken of
remarkable; but DR.. Flint records case
where man had q ball in his heart twenty
years, and finally died of pneumonia. Roth
these men had healthy hearts, and could not
have had them broken by grief. Yet. in
TACT, more men than women die OF heart
disease. Out of 81 observed cases 81 we're
males. Another record showed II males
out OF u cases. Another record showed
mat IN " cases of rupture of the heart
there was fatty degeneration existing. One
observer recorded seventeen cases out of
twenty-four where the heart was ruptured,
and where fatty degeneration existed. In
Others words, when fat is substituted for
muscle, the organ is easily broken. If any
OF these diseased people mad been subjected
TO sudden grief they might have furnished
Illustrations OF Misunderstanding, One medi-
car observer records 100 cases OF rupture of
tifS neart where there was no grief to &C
connt Tor it, In fact, grief is q very rare
cause OF heart-breaking.