The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-03

heart stops all stops that at least
is true. People in general are ter
ribly frightened abo~, getting
DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
heart disease, because to them that
spells the end Of everything, and
that is partly true and partly false.
II is true that people are afraid
of getting heart disease, but it is
not true that if they do, that is the
end of everything. have known,
and every physician has known,
people who have had grave heart
disease for years, and did their
daily work even a days washing
in spite of it and lived to a ripe
old age in spite of it too.
This bad reputatlo me heart
has acquired of being weakling
is totally undeserved II is very
tough old party indeed, and makes
adjustments, and adapts itself to
changed conditions, makes the best
of a bad jam when it happens to be
damaged, and keeps on ticking
along and very cheerily indeed.
People along about my age tell me
with a woebegone countenance that
last night in bed they heard their
heart turn over. Which reminds
me Of story some war correspon-
dent told about riding in a truck
which was carrying a load OF
bombs, or hand grenades. The SER
geant who was driving the truck
was nonchalant to say the least,
and would bang il over bumps to
the detriment Of the journalists
artistic temperament. So he finally
said to the sergeant-"I keep hear
ing those bombs rafting and l
think Kissing" And the sergeant
said-"Yea-well the time to be-
gin worrying is when you don't
hear them" The time to begin
worrying about your heart is when
you don't hear it.
The Damaged Heart
If you got all the organs of the
body together and turned some
poison gas into the chamber prob
ably the last one to quit operating
would be the heart. The brain, that
strong, massive, masterful, I'M
shakable director Of your destiny
would probably be the first TO wilt.
"The damaged heart is heralded
far and wide as the greatest cause
of death" saws DR.. Paul ID. White.
VI DVSsOH, outSsIIpP4Ag cOmpell'
tors, such as tuberculosis, pneu-
monia and cancer. An uncritical,
one-sided publicity has sprouted
tens Of thousands of heart neu-
roses in otherwise healthy persons
and ruined the morale and crippled
the lives of thousands of persons
with heart trouble but with no
reason to be heart cripples.'
The heart has been too much
set on a pedestal as the essential
organ in the body when actually
1t is only one Of many and at that
one of the toughest, most resistant
and most capable Of recovery after
serious disease
Enlarged Heart
Take the question of enlarged
heart. People who are told on a
life insurance examination they
have an enlarged heart often come
rushing to doctor to have some
thing done about it. The fact is the
enlarged heart is the safeguard Of
their health. The heart is merely
anGchanical pump, but nature has
provided it with an extremely COM
pick sort of muscle which responds
IN the most delicate way to the de-
mands made on it. When the me-
chanics Of the pumping part of the
heart-the valves-become dam
aged it means more work has to
be done by the heart muscle. 1t re-
spends to these demands by mirac-
ulously getting larger.
compensation is a word often
on the heart specialists lips. 1t
means that the heart has met its
difficulties and compensated for
them, so that the circulation of the
blood is carried on even in spite of
those mechanical difficulties. A
compensated heart is in no danger,
and even an uncompensated heart
can be patched up for wears.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
K. Lis is harmful to the
heart 70 sleep on he left side?
Answer: No. Everyone uncon-
sciously changes posture in sleep
about every half hour, so the left
side gets its share Of sleeping on
Tor everybody and no harm done.
B. B. B.:-What are the causes
Of cyst? The symptoms? Does
It ever return after removal?
Answer: A cyst is collection
Of fluid surrounded by a wall of
tissue. There are many different
kinds. One is the wen on the skin.
One is ovarian cyst. AS to symp-
toms, cysts seldom cause pain but
make themselves known by
growth. They do not return II
completely removed.