The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-19
SMALL BOY HAS
 "cOtFEE HEART"
Child of Eight Is In City Hospital Slow.
 ly Regaining Health.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST.
Muscle Was Wearing Itself Out-Drank
 Dozen Cups a Day.

Excessive coffee drinking, City Hos- pital physicians say, Is the cause of ut tie Johnnie Murphy's heart disease AL though only years old, he has one of the worst cases of heart lesion that has ever come to the inaAktution.
 When he entered lie hospital the child's heart was beating 160 to inc minute, just twice the normal rate for child of his age. For one month he mas had no coffee and his heart action mas been reduced to 100 beats A min ute.
 For two years the child has been drinking from nine to twelve cups of strong conee every day. He began to complain of pains as if needles were sticking in his heart, and for a year has slept scarcely three hours night. and then only when sitting propped up in a chair beside an open window
 Johnnie did not care for things to eat: conee was all the food he craved. ana except when cake or candy was given him, he took no other nourish ment. As he was sick and not expected to recover. he was given all the coffee ne desired until a physician saw him and advised that he be sent to City Hospital.
 Heart Was Overworked.
 Every beat of the child's heart could be plainly seen. To one inexperienced Tn medicine, 1t would seem that the heart extended over two-thirds of the chest region, and the pulsation is of a heavy, prolonged character, quite diff ierent from the sharp, quick beat of the normal heart.
 The boy is small for his age, and ef- forts of physicians have been to build up his strength. His treatment has been largely tonics and heart regulat- ing medicines, such as strophantus or digitalis.
 As the heart. like other muscles, can stand only a given amount of work, hospital internes estimate that the 60 beats minute he is now being saved by his abstinence from coffee will pro- long his life 10 or 12 years.
 The heart of man who dies at 70 years has beaten 260 million times and If the normal beat Is 72, little Johnny Murphy was living twice as fast as any normal person. When he first entered the hospital, physicians freely prophe- sled that he could live only a few weeks. Under the treatment and total abstinence from coffee he has so i'm proved that his chances for a long life are considered good If the heart lesion and degeneration already set up can be healed.
 He Is the son of John Murphy of 116 South Fourteenth Street. Mrs. Murphy told the physicians that none of her other children had showed signs of heart disease nor had they a marked fondness for coffee.-St Louis Post Dispatch.
 Literally thousands of people suffer more or less from heart weakness caused by coffee, and with some, even one cup a day will bring on heart trouble.
 The heart that has been only slightly attacked by coffee will protest and make it's weak condition known under slight exertion. and 1t Is plainly a dan gerous condition to get into. It is a curious fact that coffee does not al- ways attack the heart but goes after the stomach, liver and bowels of some and leaves the heart alone
 It is plainly chased as an active toxic ana It's work shows somewhere on most users. It is easy to rid ones self or the habit by using well-brewed Postum Coffee. The change in symp- toms is shown in a day or two as a rule, and that change shows the user to certainty that coffee was the de- stroyer
 It is useless to warn some people. even when 1t Is easy to quit and be well again. So they peg along. sick and miserable. charging their ails to food east winds" heredity," and whatnot. until some day the stroke comes when aoused nature reaches the limit It's easy to be well if one cares for the joy or health. One of the plain. sure. we'll built. and well-kept highways, with route
 There's a reason.