The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-03-11
Heart Failure and stomach stuning.

Heart FAILURE anu StOmacn StuManRs
A physician writing to the Medical
Brief says: I wish to say few words
about heart failure. We almost daily
see reports of death attributed to heart
failure. Now, what I wish to ask is,
what is it the heart fails to do2 I
have always considered the heart the
most perfect organ of the animal econ
omy, and one that never shirks its
duty. It commences its labor during
the early stages of pregnancy, and
goes on until the last moment of life,
without one second rest, night or day,
often without the intermission of a
single pulsation for 100 years or more.
At every beat it propels two ounces of
blood through its structure. At rs
pulsations per minute, nine pounds of
blood is sucked in, and pumped out.
Every hour, $40 pounds; every day,
IL, $50 pounds; every year, 4, 730, 400
pounds; every 100 years, AIS, O40, 900
pounds. Verify good organ and all
performed without one moments rest.
Now, the heart has the very meanest
and most contemplate neighbor that
ever and organ had, namely, the
stomach; a drunkard, glutton, a
trespasser, and almost everything else
as bad. Verify it ought to be walled
in and compelled to keep on it's own
grounds.
The stomach lies directly under the
heart, with only this diaphragm be-
tween, and when it fills with gas it is
like small balloon, and lifts up till
it interferes directly with the hearts
action. The stomach never generates
gas but when filled with undigested
food fermentation takes place and gas
is formed, and the interference depends
upon the amount of gas in the stomach.
To overcome this obstruction, the
heart has to exert itself in proportion
to the interference, more blood is sent
to the brain, and the following symp-
toms are the result: A dizzy head,
flushed face, a loss of sight, spots or
blurs before the eyes, flashes of light,
zigzag lines or chains, ETC., often fol-
lowed by the most severe headache.
These symptoms are usually relieved
when the gas is expelled from the
stomach.
Now when this upward pressure
upon the heart becomes excessive, more
dangerous symptoms supervence, a
larger quantity of blood is sent to the
brain, some vessel ruptures and
blood clot in the brain is the result.
and the patient dies of apoplexy, or,
if he lives, is cripple for life.
When sick person, or an old one,
or one with feeble digestion sleeps, di-
gestion is nearly or quite suspended,
but fermentation goes on, and the gas
is generated as before stated.
A man is found dead in bed, and
the medical attendant pronounces it
the result of heart failure, and such is
the certificate of burial given. Now,
the man was out, partook of a late sup
per, and ate roast beef, turkey, chick
en-, Holsters, oysters, mince pie, plum
pudding, ice cream, cake, an orange,
nuts and raisins, three or four cups of
coffee, etc, went home at midnight,
retires, and dies of heart failure be-
fore 9 o'clock the next morning. What
did the heart fail to do2
Again man is sick with typhoid
fever or pneumonia, or almost any
other disease, and died, it is said,
from heart failure; but what has his
diet been during his sickness At
present it is very fashionable to COM
mence at once with what might well
be called the stuffing process-iced
milk, which is so cool and grateful to
the patient, from three pints to one
gallon during the day and night. But
if allowed to make a suggestion,
would says that in place of it, clam
chowder, 'thickened::with gravel, stones,
eggs, beef tea, whisky, cream and all
the other good things the poor patient
can be induced to swallow.
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