Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-02

Deadly Germs That Lurk in the Cars,
Churches and Theaters.
VICIOUS COMPOUNDS In TIN CANS.
A Plea for the Old Iron Teakettle and
Silver Table Ware.
CAUSE AND CURE OF HEART FAILURE
WRITTEN FOR THE p1sPArcE.,

Yet taxes, tariffs aud trusts together cannot
waste the income of our families as reck-
lessly as public and private ignorance waste
their health.
Let anyone try to regain health who has
lost 1t and he will declare it easier to make
fortune than to get back health. And the
man or woman who is considered perfectly
healthy does not enjoy health as the old
phrase describes it. The brightness, alert
ness, the sensibility to pleasure in every
sense does not follow. The very sense of
life in a really healthy person or in one who
knows healthy moments is pleasure not to
be described. 1t is one of those things not
lawful for tongues to utter. And why is it
not endurIng-our constant possession of
which no man can rob US?
ONE OF LIES SHADOWS.
Just nov the unspoken fear of many lives
is the very real fact of heart failure This
is no imaginary evil. The heart is very
strong muscle, force pump, with a great
nerve supply of this force. But when some
blight passes upon the entire nervous sys-
TEN, brains, stomach, sacral nerves, and
their joint failure involves the nerves of the
heart, it is serious bankruptcy.
lOO many kuOW buc pLOHlS Ol LulS COLL
dition to need more than brief count of
them. The chief is the constant debility
and the faintness which follows every dis
turbing change. Discomforts, trifing in
partial health, are unbearable, producing
breathlessness, slight vertigo and sinking Of
the pulse. A room too warm, a walk of a
few blocks in the hot sun, chill in cold
car or fireless room, waiting little too long
for breakfast, a stinted or innutritious meal,
depressing news, and, most of all, impure
air, produce that loss of strength one feels
from sudden blow, the sense of the left side
of the chest being empty, the laboring pulse,
sleepiness, exhaustion which does not pass
off for days.
SYMPTOMS OF HEART FAILURE.
Instead of the heart having a reserve of
strength to meet these failures of supply to
other organs every such draft tells on its
own peculiar fund. In sudden emergency
of fire, accident or alarm the healthy heart
stimulates the whole body, throws a double
supply of blood to the organs, and courage
or indignation make one twice the man he
was before.
In failure of the heart every affront, loss
or affietion comes to prostration, nerveless-
ness and loss of strength without insenslbil-
ity. 1t is a cruel state to be in when the in
y,
ness rival, the strain of travel and irregular,
insufficient food for few days are enough
to turn the balance for invalidism and death.
How quickly lung or bowel disorder
takes them off before danger is suspected by
friends! Brain workers, journalists law
yers, business men, who carry the greatest
loads of all vocations, and women without
settled income who must plan and strive
endlessly for little, are especially in dam
ger of such endings, for their brains rob the
heart continually.
HEART WEAKNESS CURABLE.
Now, how are we to counteract this de-
preston? The medicine for the heart, of
all other organs, is rest-mental and bodily.
This does not mean doing nothing at all,
but not OVERRIDING; least of all, not giving it
anything in the way of physical i'll being
to overcome. This must be provided for at
all points. Food may be delicate and
plentiful, air and sunshine generously ad-
mitted, baths and massage do their utmost,
and chilly sleep for want of some extra
blankets. or dull days with poor fire will
so disorder the circulation that the other
cares go for nothing as far as positive gain
is concerned.
1t takes an aIl-round intelligence to secure
the common health. Most people take the
one chance of 1t that pours out of a medi-
cine bottle. Others add to this care about
food and baths, and half care about pure
air, while they take little rest and next to
no sunshine or any cheerful stimulus of
pleasure. Of course, the result is unsatis-
factory. There is room in the world for a
new profession. II there were a class OF
sagacious educated men or women to 60
about and teach people in their own houses
and on their own grounds what is essential
for health, what is unwise in their daily
practice and point out the risks to be
avoided in the future, such wise men would
be worth heavier fee than was ever yet
paid physician for cure after the evil had
been done.
ALWAYS KEEP WARM.
The first necessity to restore an impaired
heart, or weakness of any kind, he would
say is warmth. With all worship of pure
air, whose value is not to be overrated, the
prime necessity for human existence is
warmth-warm clothing, warm houses,
warm BEDS warm offices and warm railway
cars and waiting rooms. With the arrears
OF last winters disease to make up the CON-
| ing winter, the present autumn calls for
plenty of flannel and fire. This subject de-
mands an article for itself. So instructive
is the demand for heat that it hardly needs
the discussion which must be given to pure
air, which the general ill health makes at
present of more than ordinary vital import
ance. Nothing more seriously affects dis
abled heart than impurity of the atmos.
phere. A sleeper will often awake and re-
main sleepless hours, because the air in the
room has become vitiated Open the win
dows, air the room thoroughly and set the
ventilation right, and he drops into an un.
broken slumber.
Iu public halls and vehicles the oppres
sion of foul air. is insupportable, and
amounts to direct poisoning of the enfeebled
organ. A heart seriously weakened, if KEEP
in pure, warm air, fed with delicate, nour
ishlng food and Kept from fatigue anG
mental strain, will regain strength as natur
aIly as we get rest from sleep. 1t has grea
recuperative powers. But a half hour ir
the mephitic air of a travelling car or {
public hall does more to make recovery i'm
possible than almost any other cause men
toned.
By scientific test and measurement DIR
Nichols, OF Boston, found more carboni,
acid gas, one Of the deadliest poisons II
breathe, in horse car full of passenger
than there was in the better ventilated
Berkeley street sewer. That this is true M
person Of keen sense has any manner o
doubt. Though not over strong. 1 have beer
compelled the last year, over and over. Il
| ride on the platform of the street cars rather
than encounter the air within, a few instant
of which brought on dizziness and faintnes
unbearable.
PERILS OF TRAVEL.
How many persons in the cars are ther,
whose breath you would care to take once il
passing? Yet by the daily practice of ca
management in cool or rainy weather we ar
compelled to breathe over and over tn
emissions of foul, uncleansed stomachs, o