Arizona republican., 1905-10-20
SMALL BOY HAS
 "COFFEE HEART"
Child of Eicht is i1 City Hospita
 Slowly Regaining Health.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST.
Muscle Was Wearing Itself Out Dra-k a Dozen Cups
 Day.

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 or the worst cases of heart leFion 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 a child of his age. For one month he has had no coffee and his heart action has been reduced to 100 beats min ute.
 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 year has slept scarcely three hours 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, land except when cake or candy was given him. he took no other nourish- ment. As he was sick and not expect cd to recover. he was given all the cof- fee 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 inexperienced in medicine. it would seem that the heart extended over two-thirds os the chest region. and the pulsations of a heavy. prolonged character. quite diff ferent from the sharp, quick beat Of the normal heart.
 The boy is small for his ace. 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 digitalis.
 As the heart, like other muscles, can stand only a given amount of work, hospital internes estimate that the 60 beats a minute he is now being saved by his abstinence from coffee will prolong his life 10 or F years.
 The heart of a man who dies at TO years. las beaten 260 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 prophe- sled that he could live only a few weeks Under the treatment and total abstin- ence from coffee he has so improved i that his chances for long life are con l sidered good if the heart lesion and 1 degenera tion already set up can be | healed.
 He is a son of John Murphy of 116 South Fourteenth street. Mrs. Mur- phy 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 day will bring on heart trouble.
 The heart that has been only slight Iy attacked by coffee will protest and make it's weak condition known under slight exertiOn and it is plainly a dan gerous condition to get intO It 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.
 l. is plainly classed as an active toxic and it's work shows somewhere on most users. It is easy to rid ones self of the habit by using we'll brewed Postum Coffee The change in symptoms is | shown ;n 2 da-r 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 labused nature reaches the limit. It's
 easy to be well if one cares for the joy
 of health One of the plain, sure, we'll
 built. and well-kept highways, with
 sign boards on each side, is the Postun
 route.
 There's a reason.