The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-02
ABOUT HEART DISEASE.
CURES EFFECTED ~ BRINE BATHs
AND VIOLENT EXERCISE.

The Pilgrimage to ftaN NURhtiht-t'
Has Been Claimed That the Amer
lean People in rin,c Would All Re
come sufferers From Heart Dis
ease. nue 10 Excessive Use of slim
uiuntS and the High Pressure
Under which We Iivc-The Dan
ger Is Now Bciug onset by 'he New
Exercise Cure. ANA Hundreds Arc
Now I1IOckinE 80 Germany to Take
Is.
Nev York. June 30-A cure has been
found for heart disease. No drugs are
used in this treatment All that is requir-
eli Of che patient is that he shall take fire.
ouent baths. followed by certain exercises,
as in gymnasium. Persons who We're
unable to walk have been cured by this
simple treatment. II is known as the
resisted movement cure aud it has
made a town famous. Bad Nauheim, which
is situated about twenty miles from
Frankfort In Germany. is fun of heart
disease patients and it is the Mecca 10
ward which thousands of sufferers are get
ting ready 10 travel This, however is
merely because these people can afford TO
90 to Headquarters, but it is fact that
any one can learn the treatment and have
it administered al home.
These facts are reasonably important.
for it is calculated that the majority of
persons. in the United States at least nave
some form Of heart disease. This is due
10 the high pressure under which we live,
The result is because the condition mas
been suddenly thrust upon us. rather than
hoo. s,Tt r., ian
turtles our ancestors logged along through
life with what might be called measured.
dignihed tread, each nation within it
self. Then same the great comminglng
which was brought about by the setting
and development of America. Ii bred a
race of men that evolved the railroad, the
telegraph. the telephone. the typewriter.
and all of the other quickening inventions
OF the age. Speed became the one great
necessity The days of slow journeys,
long letter writing, etc, were past. Men
now began to rush into the cities on fast
trains. They made fortunes in stock eX-
changes by methods which depended 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
again while they scanned successive edi-
tons of newspapers which contained in
formation of an the world in most eases
not one hour Old Their wives and children
partook of this rush and hustle in greater
or lesser degree. And ancestors had pre-
pared them for condition directly Oppo-
site TO the existing one. To be sure, after
several generations the race has worked
Itself snto step-it may be said to have
come up abreast of it's environment, but
the effect physically has been the gener-
ating Of maladies which frequently leave
men dead in bed, in office. or in the fren-
zied pursuit of amusement, the blame for
most of these fatalities has been attrbut-
ed to heart disease.
Dr.. Thomas T.. Satterthwaite Of New
York, who is on the staff of the post grad
uate and the orthOpaedic hospitals, has
been 10 Bad Nauheim to study the treat
ment and Is now practicing il in Ameri-
ca lie was asked to describe it and to talk
about some of the curious aspects of the
great American maiady lie said
The 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. lit may vary
greatly in bulk during twenty-four hours
Its bean may 90 down to fifty and up To
500. If man stands up or lies down, the
difference in his position will cause his
heart TO vary ten beats a minute, or 600
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 at large
for the above change is what takes place
In healthy man; in a diseased man the
difference becomes much greater Ii is
curious, also that the heart sometimes
murmurs when its owner is lying down in
q way that can not be detected when he
is standing. These sounds vary with age
and with health Vierordt studied them
He placed a number of fiat pieces of gut
ia percha, 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 ne placed his ear 20 the
top of the pile and listened. If the sound
of the heart could not be heard through
the pile, Nerordt removed the chips from
the top of the pile one by one. until il
could be heard. In this way he got
a comparison of the intensity of the
sounds. He confirmed the idea that diff
ferent parts of the heart made different
sounds. There were Two distinct
sOunds-one a low-pitched vibrating
of about forty vibrations a second; the
other a sound in the base clef of between
100 and 200 vibrations a second. These OBJ
serVations We're invaluable to other in
vestigaIors. They were enabled to detect
differences in hearts which before that
were nor known TO exist. The treatment
Of heart disease by sound became an i'm
portant matter in the medical profession
1@o"eN0I' phSslSlals hhSW more OF NE
existence Of the condition than they did
OF a means of alleviating it,
Prof. Schott of Bad Nauheim Ger
many, began some years ago to treat heart
disease not as most physicians had treat
ed it-that is with the fear that any exer-
ton might prove fatal-but with the idea
that as a physical organ the heart was
susceptible of the same changes as would
he any other physical organ if surround
ed by like condition Schott and his
brother were led TO these conclusions by
an accident. 1t appears that these men
while treating neurasthenics some years
ago found that in forcing the blood to the
nerve centers the volume of the pulse was
increased. while al the same time its rate
was diminished. AS this result was de-
siraoie when treating loss of compensation
IN heart disease they applied the method
10 chronic cases with such satisfactory re-
shNs that il has been recognized and en-