The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14

years have been examined by fifty ply
sicians. But no two of them ever agreed
as to the exact nature of my disease"
"What are your symptoms?"
THE first and most prominent symptom
is the fact that i am constantly made
aware that l have a heart. Either it is
beating so slowly that 1 can scarcely feel
it or else it is racing like a Corliss engine
at full speed. At night / can hear 1t
crealNing and straining like an old schoon-
er off Point Judith in a storm. l have
often smiled to myself in the dark hours
just before dawn when l have been awak-
ened by some frightful struggle on the
part of my heart to keep up its natural
rhythm, to think how some strong man
"a baseball player or an athlete-who
never knew he had a heart, would act II
such an attack came upon him suddenly"
'Oh it is only case of dyspepsia"
said his friend. 81 often have green feel
ings around the heart myself"
Eyes, that's what all your friends tell
you," said the lawyer. they want to
cheer you up. It's a good thing that
they do. Heart disease is naturally de-
pressing. Consumptives always believe
they are going to get well, but a man
whose heart is affected is positive that
he won't live week"
II suppose the condition of your heart
prevents you from running
Yes and any form of severe physical
exercise. l wouldn't run a block for $780,
600 l am never in hurry to catch a
car. | usually take from two to three
minutes to walk up the stairs of the ele-
waited road"
What effect does heart trouble have
upon the mind?"
well, / suppose that depends upon the
man, If he is of a highly imaginative
type the consciousness that his heart Is
diseased is always depressing. There
are times when he is perfectly quiet, or
when the heart is gently stimulated by
poisons as strychnine or alcohol, that he
is comparatively free from distressing
symptoms. But the knowledge that his
heart is weak never wholly leaves him.
1t follows him everywhere. He dare not
drink because he Is afraid of over-stim-
ulation and consequent palpbation. He
must not use tobacco because the weed
had depressing influence upon his life
pump He dares not permit his temper
to get the better of his judgment. The
heart is peculiarly susceptible TO anger.
Should a man grossly insult him he
must grin and bear II. for both the pas
sion and resentment and the physical eff
font required to place a blow would re-
suit in more injury to the man himself
than to his enemy"
II can see from your remarks that
heart disease has some moral advan-
tages."
Yes. 1t certainly is aedeterrent so far
as alcohol. tobacco and anger are con-
cerned. In fact. a heart physically bad
is opposed to vice OF any kind. 1t kicks
up row even II a man tries TO do a
little loving"
rs there any pain7'
mot in the sense that the word Is gem
orally understood. II your finger is
caught in door crack there Is vivid
sense OF suffering, but no fear With
heart trouble there Is no acute pain. but
plenty OF uneasness and an awful sense
OF weakness. Anguish Is the better word
10 describe It.
Il have been walking along a street
feeling In my normal condition. when "A
chasm has opened In the sidewalk
thousand feet deep and have stood on
the brink trembling and sweating with
apprehension. A feeling OF such awful
weakness and apprehension has come
over me that ] have been paralyzed.
speechess. There was absolutely no
physical indication that anything had hap
pened, but the mental appreciation was
frightfully appalling
at such times my heart had telegraph
81 20 my brain that II was tired. IL had
been pumping away IN my brenst ever
since NaH born. never stopping Ana
now, IN some ipecrufnhie manner. which
the Wifest doctors can give no rational
explanation q, u sas stopped beating Cor