The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-20
SMALL BOY HAS
 COFFEE HEART"
Child of Eight Is fin City Hospital
 Slowly Regaining Health.
HEART BEATS roo FAST


 Muscle Was Wearing Itself Out-Dranlk
 Dozen Cups Day.
 Excessive coffee drinking, City Hos pital physicians say, is the cause of lit tie Johnnie Murphy's heart disease. AL though only eight years old, he has one of the worst cases of heart lesion that has ever come to the institution.
 When he entered the hospital the chfld,s heart was beating 16O to the minute, just twice the normal rate for child of his age. For one month he has had no coffee, and his heart ac- tion has been reduced to 100 beats minute. 1=
 For two years the child has been drinking from nine to twelve cups of -trong coffee every day. He began to complain of pains as if needles were sticking in his heart, and for year has slept scarcely three hours night, and then only when sitting propped up in chair beside an open window.
 Johnnie did not care for things to eat; coffee was all the food he craved, and except when cake or candy was given him, he took no other nourish- ment. As he was sick and not expect ed to recover, he was given all the cof- fee he desired until a physician saw 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 in medicine it would seem that the heart extended over two-thirds of the 9 fe nf heavy, prolonged character, quite diff ferent 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 digitaIis.
 As the heart, like other muscles, can stand only a given amount of work, hospital internes estimate that the six ty beats minute he is now being sav- ed by his abstinence from coffee will prelong his life ten or twelve years.
 The heart of man who dies at sev- enty years has beaten 260,0 ,000 times, and if the normal beat is seventy-two little Johnny Murphy was living twice as fast as any normal person. When lie first entered the hospital physicians freely prophesied that he could not live only a few weeks. Under the treatment and total abstinence from coffee he has So improved that his chances for a long life are considered good if the heart lesion and degeneration already set up can be healed.
 He is a 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 caus- ed 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 its weak condition known under slight exertion, and it is plainly a dan gerous condition to get into. It is cu- rious fact that coffee does not always attack the heart, but goes after the stomach, liver and bowels of some and leaves the heart alone.
 It is plainly classed as an active toxic ,sa1id it's work shows somewhere on most users. It is easy to rid ones self of the habit by using well-brewed Postum Coffee. The change in symptoms is shown in a day or two as a rule, and that change shows the user to a cer- tainty that coffee was the destroyer. It is useless to warn some people, even when it is easy to quit and be well again. So they peg along, sick and miserable, charging their ails to food" least wind," "heredity," and whatnot, until some day the stroke comes when abused nature reaches the limit It's easy to be well if one cares for the joy of health. One of the plain, sure, well- built and well-kept highways, with sign boards on each side, is the Postum route There's a reason. v. >.