The record-union., 1893-03-31
HEART FAILURE. &"
The Heart the Most Perfect Organ OF
the Animal Economy.

The Heart the Most Perfect Organ of
the Animal Economy.
A physician, writing to the Medical
B11ef, says:
| wish to say few words about heart
failure. We almost daily see reports of
deaths attributed to heart failure. Now,
what wish to ask is, what is it the heart
fails to do? [ have always considered the
heart the most perfect organ of the animal
economy, and one that never shirks it's
duty. 1t commences It's laborS during the
early stages of pregnancy, and goes on
until the last moment of life, without one
seconds rest, night or day, often without
the intermission of a single puisation for
one hundred years or more. AT every
beat IL propelS two ounces of blood
through its structure. At 70 pulsations
per minute nine pounds of blood is sucked
in and pumped out. Every hour, $40
pounds; every day, 1850 pounds; every
year, 4,130, 400 pounds; every 100 years,
4T3, ,040,O 900 pounds. Verify a good organ
and all performed without one moments S
rest.
Now, the heart has the very meanest
and most contemplate neighbor that ever
an organ had, namely, the stomach; a
drunkard, glutton, trespasser, and al
most everything else as bad. Verify it
ought to be walled in and compelled 10
keep on its own grounds.
The stomach lies directly under the
heart, with only the diaphragm between,
and when it fills with gas tbs like small
balloon, and lifts up till it interferes di-
rectly with the hearts action. The stom-
ach never generates gas, but when filled
with undlgeSted food fermentation TAX eS
place and gas is formed, and the inter
ference depends upon the amount of gas
in the stomach. 70 overcome this Ob-
structiou the heart has to exert itself in
tl,.,i L
is sent to the brain, and the following
symptoms are the result: a dizzy head, a
flushed face, loss OF sight, spots or blurs
before the eyes, flashes OF light, ZigZag
lines or chains, ETC., often followed by the
most severe headache. These symptoms
are usually relieved when the gas is ex-
PEELED from the stomach.
Now, when this upward pressure upon
the heart becomes excessive, more dang
erous symptoms supervene, 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 Grip
pie for lite.
When a sick person, or an old one. ~.
one with feeble digestion sleeps, diges-
ton is nearly or quite suspended, but fer
mentatlon goes on, and the gas is gener-
ated 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 late supper, and ate roast
beef, turkey, chicken, Holsters, oysters.
mince pie, plum pudding, ice cream,
cake, an orange, nuts and raisns, three
or four cups of coffee. ETC., went home at
midnight, retires, and dies of heart fail
ure before 9 O'Clock the next morning.
What did the heart fail to do?
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 FASH
ionable to commence 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 suggestion 1 would say
that in place OF it, clam chowder, thick
ened with gravel, stones, eggs, beef tea.
whisky, cream and all the other good
things the poor patient can be induced 10
swallow.