Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-26
SCIENCE WILL PROLONG
. LIFE BY FULLY FIVE YEARS
British Physician Declares Also
That Medical Progress Will In.
crease Wealth OF the World.
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Universal Service Stnfr Correspondent
LONDON. April s5.-Much excite.
meat tea h" sssi been ,, esassd lin British
nouncement in the House OF "e Conn am.
mons mons That far-reaching discoveries
which may reveal tho secret OF heurt
a n,s 5a 3, are re-, on T, the point Of being
vcrsity College Hospital. London,
VINO is. not yot 40.
In his statement In tne House DIR,
walter Il, Elliott said:
There Is one form Of palpitation
OF the heart from which some 90
900 pensioners from the army alone
n ,re,- suffering; We have made great
man and Tho heart-beat in the dog,
aud the diagrams are practicaliy
pr,etIsally fn anS eSperlmfntS prove
cause Of henrt disease.
The. heartbeat starts by an i'm
Pulse beginning ut the top OF tho
neart and passes down in n certaIn
muscle. '"e
Faulty Heart "Wire..o
In heart. disease the wires arc
faulty. the circuit Is bad. and instsad
Of passing .traighe down through
the heart, no II should do. the I'M
pulse IL broken up and the heart
goes INFO what is known as febriiIa-
Each muscle. fibre begins witch
Ing Independently, and In some cases
one single muscle Impulse gets loose.
30 10 speak. and COURSES round md
round the heart.
Alrnady We have opened the way.
to hnhing ont what heart disease lis.
as TO what 10 do for Il.
We suggest that the way we can
cure 1t best is this: II the circuit is
iaulty, improve the circuit, and ny
a at the chemical composition OF
zeal salts we hope to DO able to i'm
prove IL, and to set this fluttcriur.
useless, palpitatinE heart beating
strongly and steadily and regularly.
Hope In Eleetricit5.
passes round the heart, breaking il
all up. II is hoped that by an electric
snock yom will be able to stop the
again.'
In contirmatory statement DR..
Lewis says:
:. The new facts that have come to
msnt concern common and serious
variety of heart disease known as
fertilization Of the auricles. From so
70 ~ per cent Of all heart patients
admitted TO the great London hospi-
tails sufrer from fertilization.
we are in the second stage of the
work. The ilrst, taken ten years ago.
was the recognition of fertilization In
the human subject; the second Is the
'Hpu'TE INTO inc nature OF this NAL
adY. ~ Is nearly complete"
What Achievement Means.
DIT. Elliot, discussing national
health. declares:
Ems lishmen live longer than the
French or Germans, longer even
and this is notcwor;hy-than the
Americana.
Since 1870 science has increased
the lie OF the average Briton by five
years. Five years extra life has been
given to 40,ooo;ooo people. Take it
that each would produce $500 n year
"A moderate estimate. That runs
out to $40, 900, 100000 for 10000, 0o0
people for five yeais-the cost OF the
war.
Healthy Savage a Myth.
The healthy savage is IL myth IIc
ia an understood. unhealthy. parasite
ridden wretch. Neither medical nor
any other science can abolish ilI.
health in the full sense or the word.
But That we can prolong the life Of
man by five or ten gears OF vigorous
eIistence: that we can develop the
JOY or He In that sad proportion OF
our population TO whom the phrs Ia
is the merest mocknry; that we can
reduce by two-thirds our infantiIe
deaih-ratc-thits is no prophecy. hut
n mere fact"