The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-10-19
SMALL BOY HAS
COFFEE HEART"
Child of Eight Is in City Hos
pital Slowly Regaining
Health.
BEATS TOO FAST
Muscle Was Wearing Itself
Out-Drank a Dozen Cups
a Day.

Excessive coffee drinking. city Hospital
physicians say, Is tho cause Of little John
ME Murphy's heart disease. Although
only S years old. hc has one Of the worst
cases OF heart lesion that has ever come
TO the Institution.
When he entered the hospital the child's
heart was beating 100 10 the minute. Just
twice tho normal rate for a child OF his
age. For ono month he has had no coffee
and his heart action has been reduced 10
100 beats a minutes.
For two years the child has been drink
ing from nine TO Twelve cups OF strong
coffee every day. lie began 10 complain
OF pains as II needles were sticking in his
heart. and for p 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 10 eat;
coffee was all the food he craved. and ex-
ccpt whom cake or candy was given him,
ne took no other nourishment. AS he was
sick and not expected to recover. he was
given all the coffee he desired until a ply
stefan saw him and advised that he be
sent TO city Hospital.
HEART WAS OVERWORKED.
Every beat OF the child's heart could be
plainly seen. TO one inexperienced in
mcdiciuc, it would seem that the heart ex-
tended over two-thirds OF the chest re-
gion. and the pulsation Is of a heavy. pro-
longed 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 buirl mp his.
strength. His treatment has been largely
tonics and the heart regulating medicines.
such a. strophantus or digitalis.
As the heart. like other muscles, can
stand only 2 given amount Of work. hospi-
tai interues estimate that the 50 beats a
minute ne Is now being saved by his alb
sunepcc from coffee will prolong his life
10 10 y years.
The heart of a man who dies at 20 years
has beaten 26o million times. and IL the
normal beat is 81, little Johnnie Murphy
was living twice as fast as any normal
person. When nc first entered the hospi-
tai. physicians freely prophesied that he
could live only q few weeks. Under the
treatment and total abstinence from cof-
fee ne has so improved that his chances
FOR a Ions life are considered good n the
heart lesion and degeneration already set
up can be healed.
lie Is the son Of John Murphy n 1is
South Fourteenth street. Mrs. Murphy
told the physicians that none 81 her other
children had showned signs Of heart di-
scase nor had they q marked foudness for
/ conec.-Sf LoVis Post Dispatch.
Literally thousands or people suffer
more or less from heart weakness caused
nv coffee. and with some, even one cup a
day will bring ON heart trouble.
Tho heart that has been only slightly
attacked by coffee will protest and make
its weak condition known under slight OK
crtion. and IL Is plainly a dangerous con-
dltion To- get into. 10 IS q curious fact
that coffee docs not always attack the
heart but goes after the stomach. liver
and bowels Of some and leaves the heart
alone.
IL IS plainly classed as an active toxic
and It's work shows somewhere on most
users. u IS easy To- rid ones self OF the
habit by using wcll-brcwed Postum coffee.
The change in symptoms Is shown in a
day or two as 20 rule. and that change
shows the user Co "a certainty that coffee
was the destroyer.
~ De- useless Co warn some people. even
when % II easy o. quit ana be well again.
So they peg along. sick and miserable.
| Chargiug their ails fu food. east wind. f
I "heTodity. and whatnot. until some day
the stroke comes when abused nature
reaches the limit Us easy |to he well M
one cares for The jo, Of health. one "
the plain. sure vel built. and we'll kept
/ hiahwavf. with sign boards on each side.
is The Postum route.
There's a reason.