Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-23
How Rapid Life is Killing Our People.
Unprecedented Number of Deaths Result from
Heart Disease.

The fact that Ie5 persons died re-
Gently in one week in New York
City, from heart disease, when the
death rate the corresponding week
in 1904 was only So, has given rise
to the belief among physicians that
New York residents, and American
people generally, for that matter, are
living too rapidly. The strain OF
business and cares attendant on
fierce competition and the worry at
tendant on anxiety to gain wealth
are given as an explanation by ply
sicians of the conditions which exist
today.
Doctors have established the fact
that the nerve forces which control
the stomach and the heart, are at
fected by the hurry of men in the
daily scramble to bolt their food, in
order to quickly resume their excit-
ing careers. Many young men now
succumb to heart disease, where so
years ago, case was rare when
person under 80 years OF age died
from this malady.
Women are also victims. This is
attributed to the manner in which
they worry over social engagements,
also to overwork. Worry and eX-
element, together with many nerve
shocks which come to all in their
daily life, of hustle and hustle, are
| the principal causes which snap the
heartstrings.
We Americans, both men and
women, are living too fast. We work
too hard and worry too much. How
can the strain be best contracted and
the damage done be quickest repair
ed? Only by humoring and assist
ing the stomach to act in a more
healthy manner. Thus will the blood
be enriched, the nerves invigorated
and the action of an enfeebled heart
strengthened and regulated. Dr..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
contains just the right ingredients to
| do this, as will be seen from what
eminent medical authorities say OF
the different ingredients composing
it. To make the weakened stomach
strong that it may properly digest
| the food and thus manufacture rich,
red blood. Golden Seal, prominent
ingredient of the Golden Medical
Discovery" is pre-eminently the ar
ticle needed. The late Prof. John NJ.
Scudder, M. D., of Cincinnati, au-
thor of Specific Medication" says
of it:
at stimulates the digestive pro-
cesses, and increases the assimila-
ton of food. By these means the
blood is enriched. x The CON
sequent Improvement on the nervous
and glandular systems are natural
results" He further says:
in relation to its general effects
on the system, there is no medicine
in use about which there is such gen
eral lulanirnity of opinion. 1t is uni
versally regarded as the tonic useful
in all debilitated states"
The United States Dispensatory
says of Golden Seal root: AS local
remedy Hydrastis Golden SeaD has
remarkable effect upon the mucous
membranes. Used in gastro-intesti.
nal (stomach-boweD catarrhs. %
"In its influence upon the nervous
system this agent Golden SeaD, has
stimulating properties, affecting res
piration and circulation, imparting
tone and increased power to the
hearts action"
Then besides Golden Seal, which,
according to the best medical att
thorities, stands at the head of all
stomach and heart tonics and invig
orators, there is Stone root Collin
sonia Canadensis), which enters
largely into the composition Of
Golden Medical Discovery" and it
is an acknowledged stomach and
heart tonic - especially superior to
all other remedies in valvular and
other affections of the heart. The
late Prof. VIM. Paine, NJ D., OF
Phila., says in his work on Concen-
trated Medicines
Il, not long since, had a patient
who was SO much oppressed with a
valvular disease of the heart that his
friends were obliged to carry him
upstairs. He, however, gradually
recovered under the influence of Col