The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-19
SMALL BOY HAS
COFFEE HEART"
Child of Eight is in City Hos.
pital Slowly Regaining
Health.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST
Muscle Was Wearing Itself
Out--Drank a Dozen
Cups a Day.

Excessive coffee drinking, city Hos
llittle Johnnie Murphy heart disease. Al
though only years sld he has one Of
the worst cases OF heart lesion that has
ever come 10 the institution.
When he entered The hospital the
chid's heart vas beating 100 to the min
Ute. lust twice the mormal ra:e for "a
child OF his age. For one month he has
had no coffee and his heart action has
been reduced to 100 beits a minute.
/ For two years the child has been
drinking from nine to twelve cups OF
Spong coffee every day. rae began 20
comphin OF pains as II Needles were
hsicking in his heart and for year
has slept scarcely three hours a night
and then only when sittng propped up
lin chair beside an open window
| Johnnie did not care for things TO eat;
coffee W. .itI the food he cnved. and
except when cake or candy was given
| him. b. took no other nourishment. AS
! he WIS given AN tho coffee he desird
unin nhvsichn SAW SIM ad adyis ]
/ that he be sent TO City Hospital
HEART WAS ONERwORKED.
Every beat OF the chills heart could
bc plainly seen. 70 ono inexperienced
IN medicine II would seem that the
heart cNteuded over tWo-ihirds OF the
chest region. and the DulsaiiCn is of "a
heavy. prolonged character. quite df
fereni from the sharp, quick beat of th'
normal heart.
The boy is small for his age aud ef
for;s of ph,'sscti is have reen fo bufd nr
his strength. His treatment aa- Peea
largely tonics aud hes,rt resuatng mcdi.
cin,s, such As tsropuan MS on digitair.
A. the heart. Ike other muscles, c'in
stand only given amount Of work, hos
pnal uieres eseamhitc that the So
beats IL minute he iS now being saved
by ms tpstnencs from coffee will pro-
Ions his NE 10 or y wears.
The heart OF !, man wnC oies at ~
WARS has bRtcn go million times. and
II the normal beat Is ~, tue Johnnie
Mnrpny was living twice as hist as any
normal person. When he first entered
the hospital. physicians freely proidlasica
that ne could live only few weeks.
Under the treatment Of total abstiuenc'
from coffee ie has So in'prcvel tl;ai bis
chances for long life are considered
good IT the heart lesion and degcn' "a
lion already sci ny c.a ho ae.tied.
Ne is e. son OF John Murphy OF iia
South Fourteenth street AIRS Murphy
told the physicians that none )f hes
other children hld shown signs OF beatt
dseass nor had the maiiSad fonduess
for concr ST Louis Post Dispatch.
literally thousands OF oeoP 'uncr
,nore or less from near weakness cause
hy .onee. and win some e,,u ono cur
la day wiz bring on her trouble.
The heart that has heeu only slightly
at'aakod by concc win protest aud max
~ weak condition knowa upler sdsin
cNeftion, and a Is plainly q dansrn9ns
condition 10 get into. a is "a curious fac'
that conee docs not always at,itck tbs
hear out goes after the stomach lnsr.
and bowels Of some and leaves the hfsr,
81 alone
a IS plainly claysed as sn actiNe toxic
and It's work shows shnewl err en most
users Il IS easy 90 rid onss s-h Of lhc
habit bv usirv wsll-hrowed postum cof-
Gee rhe change in symptoms is shown
II na day or two as rule. and thnt
change ihous tho user to certainty
thal coffee Nas the DESTROYER
u IS useless 90 wtrn some people, fa'r
when 81 is easy 10 cult and be Wen
lgain. So they peg along. sics ana mis-
enablci chargins the.r ails 20 food.
east wmd, "herediiy ana whainot.
untn -ome day The stroke comes When
abused nature reaches the limit ~
asy 10 be- well Il one cares fcr ,hc iey
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