The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
MECHANISM OF THE HEART.
How Sudden Death From Heart Failure
May Be Prevented.

How Sudden Death From Heart Failure
May Be Prevented.
Now the American idea of treating
the heart, when it is diseased from
overwork, is to stop the bad food and
give good food. Nature will then re-
move from the blood stream the phvsi-
cal causes of obstruction, and the heart
will come down in size and be restored,
simply because it has no more than its
normal work to do. This is principle
of surgery, to-wit, to remove foreign
body from the eye, and the eye gets
well of itself; nature will always cure
If she has chance. This is repetition,
but there is need of it.
Few have any idea how far the blood
has to travel in the human body. If
the capillaries, which are 1-3OOOth of an
inch in diameter, of the human body
could be removed and put into one
straight line, it is estimated that this
line. would reach around the globe; call
it 1000 miles, it is clear that it will take
force to project water through such a
tube, and that it would take more force
to project molasses. Now, if the heart
projects normal blood through this
tube, it is also clear that it would have
to work harder to project abnormally
thick blood, and so doing would grow
bigger. The nerves of the heart are
automatic, and do their work in their
way as the nerves of the head do
theirs. They appear to know when there
is obstruction to the circulation, and
fbov m ol-o tho boo,& hoof bor1or
When was medical student snake
was brought to be killed. 1t was in
deep, empty glass jar, and a stream OF
carbonic acid gas was turned on. In
few minutes it was dead. All the gas was
not used, but was turned on to the back
of my hand soon the skin was livld
lead color, was devoid of feeling, and
paralyzed. Now this gas largely form
ed in the stomach, becomes absorbed
through the heart sac, and paralyzes
the heart Probably this was so with
Secretary Window. He had eaten and
then he spoke. The force used in speak
ing was taken from the work of diges-
ton so that the blood fermented, or he
may have been drinking carbonic acid
water, and the stomach was full of car
bonic acid gas. Thence it exosposed
into the heart sac and death followed
l knew a doctor (who knew better) to
die from eating food which he knew
would ferment, simply because he pre-
pathological effects. He is not alone;
so long as mankind lives to eat and does
not eat to live, just so long will sudden
deaths from weak hearts occur.
1t is not wonder that Secretary
Window died; it is marvel that he
lived as long as he did. If his previous
history is correctly given, he had symp-
toms of heart disease for some time
He was liable to die any moment, as
DR.. Sims died in bed, Rev. DR.. Dexter
on lounge, DR.. Cowden at the bedside
of patient, Almon w. Griswold on the
elevated road, and many others. We
should be thankful that Secretary Win
dom was permitted to read his address
and thus splendidly close his life. for
so long as he lived on the conventional
diet of starch and sugar in excess, no
one could tell how long he could sur
vive.
Again Secretary Window had treat
ment, but it was neutralized by a too
close attention to business and possibly
by the late financial, worldwide panic,
in which people looked to the govern
ment for relief for the evils brought on
by speculation. People forget it is work
to live-that each person has a limited
amount of dynamic energy to expend
in doing life work. Ten hours of brain
work day is enough. Longer work
than this steals from some other organ.
If it is the heart, it will give out If
it is the stomach, it will not digest the
food. If one has a broken bone and
works too hard the bone will not unite.
So when people overeat or eat food that
is hard to digest, they put a like strain
on their system.-N. Y. Tribune.
On Tenter Hooks.
Nervous people are always on tenter
hooks. A slight noise smtes the drums of
their ears like the clash of cymbals. The
most trivial, unexpected sound drives them
to the verge of distraction. But invigorated
and built up with HOstetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, their supersensitiveness speedily dis
appears. Dyspepsia, malaria, kidney
troubles, biliousness and rheumatism are
cured by the Bitters
A BOT whose leg was repaired in New
York by grating some skin from a dog,
complains now that his skin barks easily
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
FIVE cents saved on soap; five dollars lost
on rotted clothes. Is that economy? There is
not cents difference between the cost of q
bar OF the poorest soap made and the best,
which is as all know, Dobbins' Electric.
1T is woman's nature to pet something.
If she has nothing to pet she is apt to be in
pet Notwithstanding Journal