The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-18
How Rapid Life is Killing Our People.
UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER

The fact that 125 persons died recently
I'm 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 ply
sicians that New York residents. and
American people generally, for that mat
ter. are living too rapidly. The strain of
business and cares attendant on flerce
competition and the worry attendant on
anxiety to gain wealth are given as an
explanation by physicians of the condl-
tions which exist to-day.
Doctors have established the fact that
the nerve forces which control the StOm-
ach and the heart. are affected by the
hurry of men in the daily scramble to
bolt their food, i'm order to quickly resume
their exciting careers. Many young men
now Succumb to heart disease, where 30
years ago, a case was rare when a person
under 80 years of age died from this
malady.
Women are also victims. This is at
tributed to the manner in which they
worry over social engagements, also to
over-work. Worry and excitement. to-
gether 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 quickest repaired? Only by humor-
ing and assisting the stomach to act in
more healthy manner. Thus will the
blood be enriched, the nerves invigorated
and the action of an enfeebled heart
strengthened and regulated. DIR. PierceS
the right ingredients to do this, as will
be seen from what eminent medical
authorities ssy of the different ingre-
dents composing it. To make the weak
l. 81 hot
erly digest the food and thus manu-
facture rich, red blood. Golden Seal,
prominent ingredient of the uGOlden
Medical Discovery" is pre-eminently the
article needed. The late Prof John M:
uSpecific Medication" says of it:
ait stimulates the digestive processes,
and increases the assimilation of food.
By these means the blood is enriched.
The consequent Improvement
on the nervous and glandular systems
are natural results" He further says:
sin relation to its general effects on the
system, there is no medicine in use about
aDkich there is such general uf1Gnin1ity Of
opinion. 1t is universally regarded as
the tonic useful in all debilitated states"
The UNITED STATES DIsPENsATORY
says of Golden Seal root: wAs a local
remedy Hydrastis Golden SeaD has
q remarkable effect upon the mucous
membranes. Used in gastro-in intestinal
I'm it's influence upon the nervous
system this agent Golden Seal), has
stimulating properties, affecting respira-
tiOn and circulation, inpGrtillg tome and
Increased potoer to the hearts action"
Then besides Golden Seal, which, ac-
cording to the best medical authorities,
stands at the head of all stomach and
heart tonics and invigorators, there is
Stone root COllinsOnia Canadensis). which
enters largely into the composition of
n nd iS m
acknowledged stomach and heart tonic
especially superior to all other remedies
in valvular and other affections of the
heart The late Prof. VIM. Paine, M. D.,
of Phila, says in his work on Concen-
trated Medicines:
al. not long since. had patient who
was so much oppressed with valvular
disease of the heart that his friends were
obliged to carry him upstairs. He. how
ever gradually recovered under the infin-
ence of Collinsonin (the active medicinal
principle of Stone root, and is now at