The Washington times., 1905-10-19
SMALL BOY HAS
COFFEE HEART"
Child OF Eight Is in City
Hospital Slowly Re-
gaining Health.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST
Muscle Was Wearing Itself
Out Drank a Dozen
Cups a Day.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST

Excessive coffee drinking. City Hospi-
tai physicians say. is the cause of LITTLE
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 institution.
When he entered the hospital the
chfld's heart was beating 160 TO the min
ute. just twice the normal rate for a
child OF his age. For one month he has
had no coffee and his heart action has
been reduced TO 100 beats a minute
For two years the child has been
drinking from nine to twelve cups of
strong coffee 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 a night. and
then only when sitting propped up in a
chair beside an open window
Johnnie did not care for things II eat;
coffee was all the food he craved and
except when cake or candy was given
him. he took no other nourishment. AS
he was sick and not expected TO recover,
he was given all the coffee he desired
Until a physician saw him and advised
that he be sent 10 City Hospital
HEART WAS OvERWORKED.
Every beat of the child's heart could
be plainly seen. To one inexperienced in
medicine, IL would seem that the heart
extended over two-thirds of the chest
region. and the pulsatiOn is OF a heavy.
prolonged character quite different from
the sharp, quick beat Of the normal
heart.
The boy is small for his age. and ef-
forts of physicians have been 70 build
up his strength. His treatment has been
largely tonics and heart regulating medi-
cines. such as strophantus or digitalis.
AS the heart, like other muscles. can
stand only a given amount Of work. hos
pital interues estimate that the 60 beats
a minute he is now being saved by his
abstinence from coffee will prolong his
life 10 or u years.
The heart of a man who dies at 7C
years has beaten 26o. million times. and
| II the normal beat is p. little Johnny
Murphy was living twice as fast as any
normal person. When he first entered
! the hospital. physicians freely prophesie6
that he could live only a few weeks
/ Under the treatment and total absti-
nence from coffee he has so improved
/ that his chances for a long life are con-
sidered good II the heart lesion and de-
generation already set up can be healed
He is the son of John Murphy. of l1C
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-Dis-
patch.
more or less from heart weakness caused
/ by coffee. and with some. even one cup
a day will bring on heart trouble
] ha has haar, Ill
| attacked by coffee Will protest and make
/ It's weak condition known under slight
exertion and il Is plainly a dangerous
! condition 10 get into Il is a curious fact
/ that coffee does not always attack the
! heart but goes after the stomach. liver
and bowels Of some and leaves the heart
| alone.
| 1t IS plainly classed as an active toxic
and its work shows somewhere on most
I users II Is easy 10 rid ones self Of The
| hauit BY using well-brewed Postum Cof-
/ fee. Tie change in symptoms is shown
In day or two as a rule. and that
change shows the user 10 a certainty
that coffee was the destroyer
! II is useless 10 warn some people ever
when II is easy 10 quit and be vel
again. So they peg along. sick and
miserable. charging their ails TO food .
| east wind --heredfty'' ana Uhat-nnt
until some day the stroke come. wher
abused nature reaches the limit It-s
easy 10 he well II one cares for the ioX
Of health One OF the plain. sure well.
built. and well-kept highways witt
sign boards on each side is the Postum
route.
There's 9 reason