Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-19
SMALL BOY HAS
1gQ)IFIF|E|E HEAR
Child of Eight Is i'm 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 Hospital ply
sicians say, Is the cause of little Johnnie MUIR
phys heart disease. Although only years DID, he
has of the worst of heart lesion that has
| TO the Institution.
When he entered the hospital the chIld's heart
beating 100 TO the minute. just twice the nor
NAL 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 a minute.
| For two years the child has been drinking from
nine 10 twelve cups of strong coffee every day. He
began complain of pains II needles were
sticking in his heart. and for year has slept
scarcely three hours night, and then only when
sitting propped up in chair beside open win
dow.
Johnnie did not care for things to eat; coffee was
all the food he craved, and except when cake or
candy given him, he took other nourish-
ment. As he sick and expected to re-
cover he given all the coffee he desired until
a physician him and advised that he be sent
to City Hospital.
HEART WAS ovERwoRKED.
Every beat of the childs heart could be plainly
seen To inexperienced In medicine 1t would
seem that the heart extended 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 ply
sicaBs have been to build up his strength. His
treatment has been largely tonics and heart reg
ulating medicines, such as straphantus dgftaIs.
As the heart. like other muscles, can stand only
given amount OF work. hospital lnternes estimate
thar the 60 beats a minute be is now being saved
by his abstinence from coffee will prolong his life
10 or IL years
The heart of a who dies at 20 years has
beaten go million times, and if the normal beat
is u, little Johnny Murphy living twice as
fast any normal person. When he first entered
the hospital physicians freely prophesied that he
could live only few weeks. Under the treatment
and total abstinence from coffee he has so i'm
proved that his chances for long life are con-
sidered good IL the heart lesion and degeneration
already set up be healed.
He is OF John Murphy Of 11s South Four
teenth street Mrs. Murphy told the physicians
that none of her other children had showed signs
Of heart disease, had they marked fondness
for eofee-St. Louis Post-Dspatch.
Literally thousands Of people suffer less
from heat weakness caused by coffee. and with
some even one cup day win bring on heart trou-
BILE.
The heart that has been only slightly attacked
by coffee will protest and make its weak condi-
tion known under slight exerion. and IT Is plainly
dangerous condition to 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
1t is plainly classed as active toxic and its
work shows somewhere most 1t s easy
TO rid ones self Of the habit by using weIl-brewed
Postum Coffee The change in symptoms Is shown
in q day two rule. and that change shows
the user TO a certainty that coffee was the de-
stroyer
Is easy to quit and be well again. SO they peg
along, sick and miserable charging Their aiIs TO
food "east wind" '.heredity.' aud whatpot
until some day the stroke comes whom aI,used ma
ture reaches the limit It's easy to be well II one
cares for the JOY OF health One OF the plain,
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