The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-21
SMALL BOY HAS
COFFEE HEART"
,hi1d of Eight Is in City
- Hospital Slowly Regain
ing Health.
IEART BEATS TOO FAST
Muscle Was Wearing Itself
Out-Drank a Dozen
Cups a Day.

Excessive coffee drinking, City Hos
,ital physicians say, is the cause OF
title Johnnie Murphy's heart disease.
Although only s years old, he, has one one
f the worst cases Of heart lesion that
,as ever come to the institution. !
When he entered the hospital the
hild's heart was beating l6O to the !
minute, lust twice the normal rate for |
child of his age. For one month ne
las had no coffee and his heart action
las been reduced to 100 beats a min
tie.
For two years the child has been
thinking 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 a year
-las slept scarcely three hours night,
md then. only when sitting ProPped up
n a chair beside an open window.
Johnnie did not care for things to
,at: coffee was all the food he craved,
and except when cake or candy was
9iven him, he took no other nour1sh-
ment. AS he was sick and not expect
ed to recover, he was given all the
coffee he desired until a physician saw
him and advised that he be sent to the
City Hospital.
HEART WAS OVERWORKED.
Every beat of the child s heart. could
be plainly seen., TO one lnexperlenceeo
heart extended over two-thirds OF the
chest region, and the pulsation is OF a
heavy, prolonged character, quite dltc
-ferent from the sharp, quick beat OF
the normal heart. ". 49, :,
The boy is small for his age, and ct,
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 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 IL years.
The heart of man who dies at 70
wears has beaten 26O 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 prophesied that It. ne e. could QUO hyt
and total abstinence from coffee he has
30 improved that his chances for {
long life are considered good if tn
heart lesion and degeneration alread..
set up can be healed.
He is a son Of John Murphy of III
South Fourteenth street. Mrs. Murph..
told the physicians that none of he
other children had showed signs o
heart disease nor had they a marke'
fondness for coffee.-St. Louis Pos
Dispatch.
Literally thousands of people suffe
more or less from heart weakness
caused by coffee, and with some, eve
one cup day will bring on heart trou
BILE.
The heart that has been only slight
ly attacked by coffee will protest an
make it's weak condition known unde
slight exertion, and it is plainly
dangerous condition to get into. 1T
a curious fact that coffee does not a
ways attack the heart but goes afte
the stomach liver and bowels Of som
and leaves the heart alone.
It is plainly classed as an activ
toxic and it's work shows somewhere Q
most users. It is easy to rid onesel
of the habit by using well l-brewed Po
tum Coffee. The change in symptom
is shown in day or two as a rule, an
that change shows the user to ce
tainty. that coffee was the destroyer.
1t is useless to warn some peopl
even when it is easy to quit and /
well again, So they. peg along, sic
"food," "east wind,5 esheredity,
- and whatnot, until some day the strol
comes when abused nature reaches tt
limit. It IS easy to be well if one car,
for the Joy of health. One of the plai
sure, well-built, and well-kept hig
ways, with signboards on each side,
the Postum route.
There's reason.