The San Francisco call., 1899-07-02

n CURE has been found for heart
II disease. No drugs are used in
~ this treatment. All that is re-
II qufred Of the patient is that he
shall take frequent baths, fol-
lowed by certain exercises, as in
a gymnasium. Persons who
were unable to walk have been cured by
this simple treatment. 1t is known as
the resisted movement" cure, and it
has made town famous. Bad NaU-
helm, which is situated about twenty
miles from Frankfort. in Germany. is full
of heart disease patients. and it is the
Mecca toward which thousands of suffer
ers are getting ready TO travel. This,
however is merely because these people
can afford TO go to headquarters. but It
is a fact that any one can learn the treat
ment and have it administered at home.
These facts are reasonably important,
for it is calculated that the majority Of
persons. in the United States at least,
have some form Of heart disease. This is
due to the nigh pressure under which we
live. The result is because the condition
has been suddenly thrust upon us. rather
than because of the condition itself. For
centuries our ancestors logged along
through life with what might be called
measured. dignified tread, each nation
within itself. Then came the great COM
rningling which was brought about by the
settling and development oEFAmerica. 1t
bred race Of men that evolved the rail-
road the telegraph, the telephone, the
QOlCkenlnR
inventions of the age speed became the
one great necessity. The days of slow
Journeys. long letter writing, etc, were
naS Men now began to rush into the cit
res on fast trains. They made fortunes IN
stock exchanges by methods which de-
pended for success on the difference in
time between the East and the West.
They rushed out to quick lunches which
were swallowed in the interval OF so many
business deals, and they rushed home
q gain while they scanned successive edl-
inh ed in
fOrna ton of ali the world, in most cases
not one hour old. Their wives and chill
dren partook OF this rush ana buste IN
greater or lesser degree. AND all thls III
spite Of the fact that their ancestors nae
prepared them for condition directly op-
posite 10 the existing one. 10 pc sure
after several genera tions the race mas
worked Itself into step-it may pc sald u
have come up abreast of its environment,
but the effect physically has been tne
generating OF maladles winch frequently
leave men dead in bed. in Office. or IN the
frerzied pursuit OF amusement. The blamd
for most Of these fatalities has been at
tributed to heart disease.
DR.. Thomas T.. SatterthWaite of New
York. who is or the staff Of the POST
Graduate and the OrthOpedic Hospitals
has been TO Bad Nauheim to study the
treatment and is now pracucing it in
America He was asked to describe IL
and TO talk about some OF the curious as
poets OF the great American malady. He
Tho heart. being the central pumping
station for all the rapidly moving cur
rents Of the human body, is naturally
very susceptible of changes that may take
place in those currents. 1t may vary
greatly in bulk during the twenty-four
hours Its beat may go down to fifty and
up 10 300. If man stands 10 or lies down
the difference in his position will cause
mis-. heart to vary ten beats a minute, or
900 an hour. When we think that each
one of these lost or gained beats alters
the speed of the blood through the veins,
We get some idea of what slight changes
in this organ may mean TO the body al
large. for the above change is what takes
place in a healthy man. In a diseased
man. the difference becomes much greater
II is curious. also. that the heart some
times murmurs when its owner is lying
down In a way that cannot be detected
when he is standing. These sounds vary
with age and with health. Vierordt stud
+ led them. He placed a number of fiat
pieces of guttapercha. shaped like poker
chips on the chests of men women and
children He piled these chips one above
the other just over the heart until they
formed a solid column Then he placed