The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-05-09
FACTS ABOUT THE HEART
VALUE OF SIMPLE FOOD
OLD THEORIES THROWN INTO
THE DISCARD BY LATTER
DAY SCIENTISTS.


beth is ght-hearted," THE lion ha.
strong heart" He is man Of
stout hearth"
, Out of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh. according tc
Matthew. If you will examine this
verse, as well as the other phrases
the clew and physiology behind them
will be discovered. 1t Is the simple
observation that "a heart bowed
down or one 'buoyed up" seems to
be definitely influenced by sorrow or
hope, worry or success.
In fine, the automatic muscle call
ed the heart moves in unison with
the emotions and the feelings. Alb
sence is said to make the heart grow
fonder, but if it stirs the passions it
does not grow stronger.
Prof. G. A. Sutherland, fellow of
the Royal College of Physicians of
London and an authority on heart
disease, has just pointed out that
within recent years there has been a
revolution in the domain of cardiolo-
gy, or heart knowledge, says the New
York Sun. The mechanism of the
heart beat, which was once thought
to be due to the nerves or to chemi-
Gals, is now known to be vital phe-
nomenon resident in the heart tissue
itself and dependent upon cleanliness
and simple food.
The New View.
In general, doctors used to consid-
er the heart sort of horse with two
horse reins attached to 1t as a bride,
one the vagus or depressor nerve-a
check rein-the other the whip or ac-
celerator nerve The former, the va
gus, controls, steadies, guides and
hinders any impulsiveness of the
heart, while the latter stimulates and
speeds up the heart beat.
Nowadays, however, the heart is
recognized as complicated two
story house with two rooms on each
floor, two chimneys-huge veins-on
the roof, and two side porches-huge
arteries-on the first floor.
It's four walls and their muscular
deeds of derring do are now studied
and reported to the doctor for judg-
ment and treatment by means Of the
two new heart instruments, the poly
graph and the electro cardiograph.
Unless physician utilities these aids
in his diagnosis and his remedies
he must needs be wide of the mark.
The activities of the heart to be
considered in health or illness are it's
sensitiveness and elasticity, its tone
or flabbiness, its rhythm and regular
ity, it's susceptibilities and responses
to passions and feelings and it's pow
er to conduct electric currents.
Formidable and remote as these
terms may seem to you at first men
ton, they are all easily investigated
by the modern heart specialist. Any
disturbance of one or more of these
heart qualities must be sought out
and known by the doctor before he
Is able to take hand to hold the
horse reins, diagnose precisely what
is amiss and then, like the general a
real doctor must be, lay out a re-
medal plan of campaign.
Heart the Whole Works.
In this regard the exact words of
we study the discoveries which have
been made as to the extreme complex
ity of the cardiac mechanism we are
led to ask how this machine is con-
trolled and how far it can be influ-
enced by human interference"
The physiological working of the
heart suggests that it is an automat-
ic, high powered, high geared, self
starting, self feeding, self lubricating,
air cooled, blood heated structure
with a blood driving end in view. 1t
is las the street saying goes, "the
whole works."
Even under the stress and strain Of
disease it can be seen as a powerful
ties in it's own way. This is true of
some valvular heart diseases, where
the lesion or sore has to do with par
TALLY closed curtains or flaps called |
valves. These guard the exits of the
blood from one heart chamber to the
other as well as into the arteries
BY virtue of it's automatic action
the heart is also safeguarded against
various disturbances to which other
parts of mans anatomy are subject
At all events, it should be great
matter Of consolation to healers,
opathists, thoughtists, nature takers
and doctors as well that the excell-
ent and normal automatic action Of
the heart muscle after all Is not dis
turbed in disease or in health by
most Of the heart tonics, cardiac
stimulants and other medicines level
ed with misdirected energy at the
heart 1t should indeed be a great
consolation, because few Of them ever
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