The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-06-25
BILL ARP A VERY SICK MAN
The Doctors Give Him Nor.
phine and He Has Fitfu1
Dreams All Night.
Atlanta Constitution.

Z prime and He Has Fitfl
- Dreams All Night.
l. Atlanta Constitution.
J. If anyone else was concerned
s would not write this sick letter, but
l. may benefit others who are similarl
affected. have been very sick ma
and hardly expected to see my Ias
birthday, which is today, the 10th, bu
| have scuflied through and am now o
u the upgrade. One of my far-awa
: boys wired me to wolk on my stomac
and 1 would get well. He might a
! we'll have wired: "Keep on living All
you will keep living on"
No, it wasn't the stomach. 1t wa
higher up where the left ventricle O
the heart had got walled in and tn
trouble was what the doctor calls th
angina pectoris, and my left arm wa'
helpless. For two days and nights
suffered more of real agony than eve
suffered in all my life. Our doctor bo,
was here from Florida, and knew OK
actly what was the matter, and tool
all his medicine, but got little relief
and was willing to die to get out ol
pain. Finally he gave me morphine
in both arms and L went off to sleer
and rest. Those morphine dreams and
visions are always miracle to me. /
thought that in his talk about my
trouble he called it angelina pectoris,
for L don't hear well now, and L got the
refrain on my mind, that pretty verse
from Goldsmith's " Hermit"
Turn, Angelina-ever dear
My charmor turn to see,
Thine own, thine long lost William hero,
Restored to heaven and thee"
Ever and anon L could hear it rail-
ing on the tin roof, but it didn't rain a
drop. All night long was murmur-
ing "Turn, Angelina, ever dear" L
couldn't stop it nor think of anything
else to say, but wasn't restored-next
day L got some better and as l hadn't
taken any nourisbment for three or four
days craved something acid, and like a
foolish boy eat small piece of huckle-
berry PIE for supper, which they told
me not to do. That set the dogs to
barking about midnight and set me
back just where had been, and the
doctors work all had to be done over
again. Emetics and hot baths and hot
water bags and more morphine finally
brought relief.
That night after supper the young
people had the dining table cleared off
and were playing that pretty little
childish game called ping pong or ding
dong or sing song or Hong Kong, or
some outlandish name with its tinkling
balls, ami 80 l got up another refrain
and was murmuring ping pong, ding
dong and ding dong bell all night. One
OF my boys, who is always punning,
told his mother that huckleberry pie
business was simply case of too much
pie-eaty, and they tried to max, me
smile, but they couldn't. was past
all wit and humor and puns and jokes.
But am done with huckleberry pie
and huckleberry cordial and Huckle-
berry Finn and any other huckleberry.
Only last Saturday my only brother
died suddenly of heart failure away
OH from home. His time was not
out, for he was nearly twenty years
younger than l am, and now, alas
L have no brother, and he was al
ways a good brother to me. But al.
most everybody is threatened with
heart failure now, and so l am looking
out for it, but don't want it to come
along the Angelina line. The heart is
the most wonderful and mysteric us
organ of our anatomy. 1t is called the
seat of affections, the desires, the emo
tiOns. The organ of love and hate and
joy, but it is not. 1t is mentioned in
the Bible more than six hundred times,
and always in connection with our
good or bad traits, but it has nothing
to- do with feeling or emotion or
character. 1t is nothing but a fleshy,
pulpy organism, a mechanical contri-
vance, and has TO be carefully nursed
or it will rebel. 1t is the engine that
drives the whole anatomical machine.
If overworked or overfed with ice or
tobacco or anything else 1T Will work
on faithfully until 1t can't work any
longer, and then gets discouraged and
dies suddenly at its post.
The book says that but little was
known to medical science concerning
the heart until the eighteenth century,
and that within the last fifty years
many books have been written, and
now no part OF the human system is
better understood or more satisfactorily
treated. The disease called angina
pectoris, is declared to be the most
dangerous to which it is subject be-
cause of it's distressing pain and sense
of impending death. If 1 had read
that while 1 was suffering 1 should
have surrendered, but the doctor
wouldn't tell me nor let mo read it,
He says it is better to minify rather
than magnify the apprehensions of his
patients. But the young people ought
TO be told, told often and earnestly,
that they can't fool with the heart. A
boy who smokes cigarettes on the sly
is storing up trouble that will surely
come home and sap his manhood and
shorten his life. This IS so well known
now that good men will not employ
boys who smoke. One vice calls fol-
another and news manager told me
the other day that one of his newsboys
skipped some of his patrons every
week 30 as to have paper or two tC
sell and get money to buy cigarettes
OF course he discharged him.
Il 1t is pleasant entertainment to lister
to doctor tell his varied experiences
and this one uttered truth the Other
day that ought to provoke seliou,
thought in every PARENTS bosom. III,
says that his greatest foe in the treat
ment of diseases of children is thei
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