Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-19
Child of Eight is in City
Hospital Slowly Re-
gaining Health.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST
Muscle Was Wearing Itself
0ut-.-Drank a Dozen
Cups a Day.

Excessive coffee drinking, city hos
pital physicians say, is the cause of
little Johnnie Murphy's heart disease.
Although only 8 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
child's heart was beating 160 to the
minute, just twice the normal rate for
q 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 il 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 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
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 mex
perienced in medicine, it would seem
that the heart extended over two
thirds of the chest region, and that
the p%ulsation 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
efforts of physicians have been to
build up his strength. His treatment
has been largely tonics and heart reg
ulating medicines, such as stropnan-
tus or digitalis.
As the heart, like other muscles,
a stand only a given amount Of
work, hospital internes estimate that
the sixty beats a minute he is now be-
ing saved by his abstinence from cot
fee, will prolong his life ten or twelve
years.
The heart of a man who dies at 70
years has beaten go, 900 600 times,
and If the normal beat was 70, little
Johnny Murphy was living twice as
fast as any normal person. When he
first entered the hospital, physicians
freely prophesied that he could live
only a few weeks. Under the treat
ment and total abstinence from coffee
he has so improved that his chance.
for a long life are considered good 4
the heart lesion and degeneration al
ready set up can be healed.
He is a son of John Murphy, Of III
South Fourteenth street. Mrs. Muir
ply told the physicians that none o
her other children had showed sign.
Of heart disease nor had they a mark
ed fondness for coffee.-St. Louis Pos
Dispatch.
Literally thousands Of people suffe.
more or less from heart weakness.
caused by coffee, and with some, ever
one cup a day will bring on hear
trouble.
The heart that has been only slight
ly attacked by coffee will protest ant
make its weak condition known undel
slight eXertion, and II is plainly a dan
gerous condition to get into. It is 3
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.
II is plainly classed as an active
toxic and its work shows somewhere
on most users. II is easy to rio ones
self Of the habit by using well-brewed
Postum Coffee. The change in symp
tome is shown in a day or two as a
rule, and that change shaws the
user to a certainty that coffee was the
destroyer.
IL Is useless to warn some people
evep when il is easy to quit and be
well again, so they peg along, sick and
miserable, charging their ails Ia
food east wind" '~heredity," and
what not, until some day the stroke
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.