Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-19
SMALL BOY HAS
COFFEE HEART"
Child of Eight is in City Hos
pital Slowly Regaining
Health.
10.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST
Muscle Was Wearing Itself
OutADrahk a Dozen
Cupsta, Day. - .,o.,,.o.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST

Excessive .coffee q Flnkips. City Hospital
physicians say Is tie. cause Of little Johnnie
Murrhy'a heart. disease. Although oniy s
years old, be has one OF the worst cases
Of heart lesion that has ever come to the
institution. .. =, p. -
When he entered the hospital the child s
heart was beating 16O to the minute, Just
twice the normal rate for a child of his
age. For one mouth be has had no coffee
and his heart action has been reduced to
100 beats a minute, e.
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 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 ex-
cept when cake or candy was given him
he took no other neurishment. As he was
sick and not expected to recover. he was
given all the coffee he desired until ply
stefan saw him and advised that he be sent
to City Hospital.
HEART WAS OVERWORKED
Every beat of the chid's heart could be
cine, It would seem that the heart ex-
tended 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 efforts
of physicians have been to build up his
strength. His treatment has been largely
tonics and heart regulation 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 u years.
The heart of a man who dies at z.
years has beaten 260 million times, and n
the normal beat is 70. little Johnnie Murphy
was living twice as fast as any normal
person. when he first entered the hospital
physicians freely prophesed that he could
live only few weeks. Under the treat.
ment and total abstinence from coffee he
has so improved that his chances for a Ions
life are considered good il the heart leisor
and degeneration already set up can be
healed.
He is a son of John Murphy Of ZIG South
Fourteenth street Mrs. Murphy told the
physicians that none of her other chill
uith Aidu SAohh oibhH % htdiA disease mol
had they a marked fOndness for Coffee
St. Louis POst-Dispateh.
Literally thousands of people suffer
more or less from heart weakness caused
by coffee. and with some even one cup 4
day will bring on heart trouble.
The heart that has been only slightly at,
tackled by coffee will protest and make IL,
weak condition known under slight exer
ton. and It is plainly a dangerous 1ondi
/ ton to get into. II is curious fact tina
coffee does not always attack tile heart
1 but goes after the stomach, liver an,
bowels Of some and leaves the heart alone
| Il is plainly classed as an active toxi,
! and its work shows somewhere on mos
users. II Is easy to rid ones self OF tn,
habit by using well brewed Postum Cot
| fee. The change in symptoms is showi
/ in a day or two, as a rule. and tina
/ change shows the user TO certainty tina
/ coffee was the destroyer
/ IL Is useless TO warn some people, ever
when II Is easy 10 quit ana be well again
/ So they peg along, sick and miserable
/ charging their ails TO flood, - east wind,
/ 'heredity" and what not. until some da,
/ the stroke comes when abused natur
reaches the limit It's easy to be we'll
one cares for the Joy of health. One o
the -psain. sure, well built ana well KEEP
highways. with signboards on each side
lis the Postum route.
There's a reason.