Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-19
SMALL BOY HAS
COFFEE HEART"
Child of Eight Is in City Hos
pital Slowly Regaining
Health.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST
Muscle Was Wearing Itself Out
---Drank a Dozen Cups
a Day.
HEART BEATS TOO FAST


pital physicians say, is the cause, Of
little Johnnie Murphy's heart disease.
Although only 8 years old, he 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 to the
minute. just twice the normal 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 lnin-
ute.S
For two years the child has been
drinking from nine to twelve cups If
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 chair beside a 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 nourish-
ment AS he was sick and not ex-
pected to recover, he was given all tho
coffee he desired until physician saw
him and advised that be sent to City
hospital.
Heart Was Overworked.
Every beat Of the child's heart could
be plainly seen. To one inexperienced
in medicine. 1t would seem that the
heart extended over two-thirds Of the
chest region, and the pulsation is of
heavy, prolonged character, quite diff
ferent 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 regulat-s
ing 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 so beats minute he is now being
saved by his abstinence from coffee
will prolong his life ten or twelve
years.
The heart of a man who dies at 20
IL the normal beat is u, little Johnny
Murphy was living twice as fast as
any normal person. When he first en-
tered the hospital, physicians freely
prophesied that he could live only
few weeks. Under the treatment and
total abstinence chances for a long life
are considered good If the heart lesion
and degeneration already set Up can
be healed.
He is a son of John Murphy Of 116
South Fourteenth street. Mrs Murphy
told the physicians that none of her
other children had showed signs Of
heart disease nor had they marked
fondness for coffee.-St Louis POST
Dispatch.
Literally thousands Of people suffer
more or less from heart weakness
caused by coffee, and with some. even
one cup day will bring on heart
trouble.
The heart that has been only
slightly attacked by coffee will pro-
test and make its weak condition
known under slight exertion. and it is
plainly a dangerous condition to get
into. 1t is curious fact that coffee
does not always attack the heart, but
goes after the stomach, liver and bow
els of some and leaves the heart alone.
1t is plainly classed as an active
toxic and it's work shows somewhere
on most users. 1t is easy to rid ones
self of the habit by using well-brewed
Postum coffee. The change in symp-
toms is shown in a day or two as
rule and that change shows the user
to certainty that coffee was the de-
1t is useless to warn some people, !
even when it is easy to quit and be
we'll again. So they peg along. sick
and miserable charging their ails to
food" least wind Incredibly" and
whatnot, until some day the stroke
comes when abused nature reaches the {
limit. It's easy to be we'll If one cares +
for the JOY of health. One Of the plain, I
sure, we'll built and well kept high !
ways, with sign boards on each side, is /
the Postum route.
There's q reason.