New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-19
SMALL BOY HAS
COFFEE HEART :"
Child of Eight Is in City Hos
pita1 Slowly Regaining
Health.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST.
Muscle Was Wearing Itself Out
Drank a Dozen Cups
a Day.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST.

Excessive coffee drinking, City Hospital ply
.sidans say. is the cause of little Johnnie MuI-
phys heart disease. Although only 5 years OLD,
he has one Of the worst cases of heart lesion that
have ever come to the institution.
When he entered the hospital the childs heart
was beating 16O to the minute, just twice the
normal rate for child Of his age. For one
month he has had no coffee. and his heart action
has been reduced TO 100 beats 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 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
nourishment- As he was sick and not expected
70 recover he was given ali the coffee he desired
until a physician saw him and advised that he
be sent to City Hospital
HEART WAS OvERwoRKED.
Every beat of ths chids heart could be plainly
seen To one inexperienced in medicine, II would
seem that the heart extended over two-thirds Of
the chest region, and the pulsation is of 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
regulating medicines. such Etrophantus or
digitals.
As the heart like other muscles. can stand
only q given amount of work, hospital internes
estimate that the 60 beats a minute he is now
being saved by his abstinence from coffee will
i
The heart Of a man who dies at 10 wears has
beaten 260 million times, and II the normal heat
IS -, little Johnny Murphy was living twice as
fast as any normal person. When he first en-
tered the hospital, physicians freely prophesed
that he could live only a few weeks Under the
treatment and total abstinence from coffee he
has so improved that his chances for a long life
are considered good If the heart lesion and de-
generation already set up can be healed
He is a son OF John Murphy of 116 South
Fourteenth street. Mrs. Murphy told the nbv-
sfcians that none of her other children had
showed signs of heart disease nor had thew a
marked fondness for coffee.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
literally thousands of people suffer more or
less from heart weakness used by coffee and
with some, even one cup day VIII bring on
heart trouble
The heart that has been only slightly attacked
nv ceffee will protest and make its weak condi-
ton known under slight exertion, and il is plain
ly dangerous condition 10 get into. II 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.
II is plainly clasSed as an active toxic ana Its
work shows somewhere on most users. II Is
easy to rid ones self Of TIE habit by using we'll
brewed Postum Coffee. The change in symptoms
change shows the user to a certainty that COT
fee was tho destroyer.
II Is useless 10 warn some people, even when IL
IS easy TO quit and be well again. So they peg
along sick and miserable. charging their ails 10
food" east wind" "heredty,'' and Whatnots
until some day the stroke comes when abused
nature reaches the limit. It's easy TO be well If
one cares for the joy Of health Ons of the
plain, sure, well-built, and vel-kept u.siways
with sign boards on each side, is the Postum
route.
There's reason