Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
High Blood Pressure Seen in Acts

even grow in size to meet the strain,
and finally they break down, get brain
LESSONS, melancholia, insanity, paraly-
sis or shock. But high blood pressure
induced by ambition or mental attitude
is like drug, it appears, and for a
time makes its possessor seem full of
pep and power.
Doctors tell interesting stories about
high blood pressure cases. One of the
most unusual. according to DR.. Sadler,
was the case of a young man who
came to him in an alarming condition.
His blood pressure was 160. He was
nervous. irritable, unable to get along
with his friends and believed himself
on the verge of breakdown. None the
less, the physician could find nothing
organically wrong with him. AS the
doctor paused in slight puzzlement
after the examination, the young man
confided that he was going to Cali
fornia for a rest. They talked along,
the doctor adroitly questioning the pa
tient without seeming to do SO. Finally
the young man admitted that his
trouble seemed to date from the time
he was Tilted, a short time before, by
the girl of his cho!cs. Fortunately, he
mentioned the girls name, and the
doctor telling him to return on a GER
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told her that the young man was very
seriously Ill. He asked If she would
come down and talk it over with hun.
since he believed she could help her
former sweetheart. She came, as you
may surmise, and found the young
man there. The doctor left them
alone and they repaired and resumed
their romance. The doctor relates that
the young mans blood pressure there
after went down to 1856. and that he
was soon normal and happy.
Again, a raiddle-aged, prematurely
gray man called on the doctor, suffer-
ing from an ailment that he couldn't
understand. He had a persistent head
ache, he couldn't Sleep his breath was
short and he tired easily. He seemed
afraid of something, and continually
looked behind him. Though he had
nothing wrong-as far as organic trou-
BILE or germ disease was concerned
his blood pressure was about ITO.
Questioning finally brought out tne
fact that the man was an ex-convlct
and that he was in mortal terror tnat
the police would pick him up again;
He had established himself In good
position and wanted to keep 1t. Tne
doctor made arrangements with the
police chief of the town that the man
was to be granted temporary immunity
from arrest, save in case he committed
some crime and at the end OF
a month his blood pressure had re-
turned to normal. He had literally
worried himself into a dangerous high
blood pressure state, and the thing nad
gotten SO bad he had been unable
alone to overcome 1t.
But such cases could be multiplied.
in all authenticity, to I'LL pages. SO
the next time you meet nervous,
combative man, advise him to have
a physician look to his blood pressure
before It's too late. If you're wrong.
no harm will have been done. Other
wise the excitable one may be COM
PEELED to take long rest. or be re-
stricted to bed and buttermilk until his
blood pressure goes down, which, after
all, Is much better than eventual af-
fiction of the kind the doctors attribute
to high hlood pressure