Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 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,

Excessive coffee drinking City Hospi-
tai physicians say, Is the cause OF little
Johnnie Murphy's heart disease, Al
though only eight 81 g old, he has one
OF the worse cases O. heart lesion that
has ever come to the institution.
When he entered the hospital the
child's heart was beating 1870 to the
minte just twice the normal rate for
n child of his age For one month Q
has had no coffee and his heart action
has been reduced to 100 beats a min
ute.
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 II needles We're
sticking In his heart, and for a year
has slept scarcely three hours a night
and then only when sitting propped up
i'm q chair beside an open window
Johnnie aid 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 nourshment As
he was sick and not expected to recov-
en- he was given all the coffee he desir-
ed uutll a physician saw him and ad-
yised that ne be sent 20 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 extnded over two-thirds Of the
ches. region and the pulsaton Is OF a
heavy prolonCcd character quite diff
ferent from the sharp, quick beat Of
the normal heart
The boy Is small for his age. hrd ef.
forts Of physicians have been 10 build
up his strength His treatment has
been larpely tonics and hear, regulating
medicines, such as strophantus or Dig
tails
As the heart Ike other muscles, can
stand only a given amount Of work,
hospital lnternes estimate that the 60
heats o minute he Is now being saved
by his abstinence from coffee viii pro-
long his life 10 or 10 years.
The heart OF q man who dies at 10
years has beaten ESQ million times. ard
If the normal beat Is 10, little Johnny
Murphy was living twice MS fast AS any
normal person. when he FIRST entered
the hospital phvsiniaus freely pr0rhe-
sled that he could live only few
weeks Under he treatment and total
abstinence from coffee he has 90 i'm
proved that his chances for long life
are considered good II the heart lesion
and degeneration already set up can be-
healed.
He is son Of John Murphy Of li6
south Fourteenth street Mrs MUIR
MY told the uhysicians that none OF
her other children had showed signs OF
neqrt disease or had they a marked
fondness for cOffee,-St Louis POST
Disratch.
Literally thousands OF people suffer
more or less from hear, weakness
caused by coffee. and with some. even
one cup day VIII bring on heart trou-
BILE
The heart that has been only slightly
attached nv coffee viii protest and
NAVE It's weak condition Known urder
slight exertlou. ana u is plainly a dan
Rrrous condition 10 get into II is "a
curious fact that coffee does not al-
wavs attack the heart. bu. goes after
the stomach liver and bowels Of some
ana leaves the heart alone.
10 Is plairly classed as an active
toxic and rs work elbows soroowN owe
ON most users II IL easy to rid ones
eeif NJ the habit Nv ueing well-hrawe I
Postum Coffee. The change IN eymp-
toms Is shown IN n dav or two as a
| rule, ana thqt change shows the user
to a certainty that coffee was the de-
stroyer.
H. IL useless to warn some people.
even when lt IL easy TO quit and be
VOL again. So thew neg along sick
and miserable charging their nils 10
"fo0d " least wind " 'heredltv." and
whatnot, until some dav the stroIe
cones when abused nature reaches the
! limit IT'S easv 10 he well II ore cares
FOR the iov ~ health ore ~ mo rIoiu.
sure well-hu'lt and weli-kent high
ways. with s0n boards on each side. IS
| the Postum route.
There's reason