, 1934-12-05
Every Little Beat Of
Heart Has Meaning
All It's DUN!
Editor, Journal or the American Medical Association
and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine

and Of Hygeia. the Health Magazine
or course, you are aware u the fact that you have
q heart. And probably YOU can feel your own pulse.
But 1t II not advisable for YOU To do -, unless YOU
realize the significance or the pulse and the heart
beat. Otherwise YOU are likely to misintrepret the
significance Of what YOU feel or determine.
People who are representative or neurotic may get
greatly worried about their heart beats and com
plain Of palpitation and pains In the heart, besides
other manifestations more likely To DC due 70 trouble
with digestion than with the heart.
Overuse Of tobacco, coffee. tea, OF alcohol is fire.
uuently associated with digestive trouble and also
with reference to the heart. Women, approaching
the period when they pass from maturity into old
age, are also likely to get symptoms which are refer
red 10 the heart.
During the World war the relationship between
extreme nervous excitement and the heart beat
was recognized. and the term irritable heart was
applied 10 a condition in which there is shortness o.
breath, paIpitation. and a good deal or fatigue.
The normal heart beats from 70 to us times a min
ute. but not infreuuently from 90 10 81 times a min
ute. and IN some people from 50 to 80 times a minute.
The heart rate in babies and children IS likely 70 &c
much higher than IN grown people.
AT birth, the heart beats around 1870 times a min
ute: Al years 81 age, about 100 times r minute; AZ
10 years. about so times a minute: and AZ l5 about
IS times a minute.
The heart beat gets much more rapid when there
Is exercise ~ excitement. III gets more rapid in
fevers and IN the presence NJ severe infections. ~
is much faster when there Is overaction az the thy
roid gland.
Some people normally have heart beats ~ from
50 to 80. but usually this Is much slower than normal
The heart beat gets a little slower with age, fatigue
and during exposure 10 cold.
p rry4otr conditions invnlyfur the brain with nreS-
sure inside the skull, the heart beat Is likely 70 get
slower. More interesting and significant, however.
than either a rapid or = slow heart Is an irregular
heart.
Irregularty of the heart vi " severe change III Its
rhythm. should Be taken a. sufficiently significant 70
bring about a visit ~ 4 doctor who can make an ade-
quate study Or the case.
A sudden change in rhythm and regularity of the
heart beat may indicate changes IN IT'S muscles or in
IT'S nerve supply. the significance ~ which can " de-
termined only BY proper scientific study.
50 largely has our contact with tho Orient been
marked oy injustice and greed that VA might we'll
marvel that retaliation has not already overtaEen us
DR.. DIN ID. wannamaker. American director III
LinEnan University. Canton. China.
Present-day social situations may seem new and
intricate. but IN the last analysis II ~ Tic same heroic
III A&AAt AL VIII AIM AAAAFAN GAA ANNANe wa AAAAA hARA NE
de~vil-Edwsrd .. Kohlstadt executive secretary NJ
Methodist Board ar Home Missions
We women don't want and never have asked tor
sympathy. Sympathy has never been substitute for
justice-Mrs. Mary hurry. president VI the W0mens
League.
Who mac" thc anarchy Ivy China? It exists be-
cause China is ono III The best field for selling guns
and munitions-NIaiOr Clement Richard Attlcc. MI m
The science Ol consumption is stll LIN its cradle
Henry Goddard Leach, magazine editor.
I have always loved poetry have depIored its
decline IN this country-Mrs. Hugh Bullock. founder
OF the Academy NJ American Poets.
: BY r.. j. Scott