Tr POINTS ON KEEPING WELL DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of “HEALTH” (©. 1926, Western Newspaper Union.) WHAT CAUSES HEART DISEASE? pot as In previous years to the indl- vidual as to the murmurs, pe- cullar valve sounds and exact condi case, heart disease in the mass. what most cases quent cause, patients are flicted, what age and frequently are af- men especially fitted to them. In the American Heart Journal, a bulletin published by the Society for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Drs. John Wychoff and Claire Lingy of New York present a study of 1,000 cases, enough to give a fairly good number of the various kinds of heart trouble, In these thousand cases they found that about one-fourth, or 250, were caused by, or at least preceded by rheumatism ; two-fifths, or about 400, were caused by artlosclerosls or hard- ening of the arteries; one-tenth, or 100, were caused by syphilis; other dis- eases of the kidneys, caused another tenth, while the rest due to causes which could not be learned. Rheumatism, which causes heart disease, was generally rheumatism of early life. Only rarely did it occur after fifty years of age. Ninety-five per cent of rheumatism causing heart disease occurred before fifty, and 50 per cent of these occurred before thirty. So it is evident that any ef- fort to prevent the heart caused by rheumatism must begin 20 years before the patient had heart dis- ease, It must begin before is thirty and before he has rheumatism. In three-fourths of the of rheumatic heart disease. the patient bad had one or more attacks of rheu- matic fever. In one-fourth of the cases, the patient had b tonsilitis. Se it comes down to this, that the way to prevent heart is by preventing rheumatism chil- dren and young people and especially people under thirty. And the way to prevent rheumatism in children and young people is by preventing tonsil- itis, infected teeth, abscesses and Iin- as prevent- were disease he cases ad disease among fections generally, as well ing scarlet fever, 80 it's like the house built. It isn't simply preventing something after the patient is past fifty. It's preventing the cause far back and stopping the cause of that HICCUP that Jack CCUPS, like many other oem- mon allments, are caused by many things and are a symptom in many diseases. Everybody has them at times and, In the great majority of cases, they are harmless and tem porary; In some cases, however, they are persistent and exhausting. A hiccup is a muscular spasm. muscle in this case is the diaphragm, a muscular partition which stretches from the ribs and the backbone to the front of the chest wall, forming a thick, heavy wall dividing the chest above from the abdomen below, When this muscie contracts suddenly, usual- ly just as the lungs are being filled with alr, the glottis, in the threat, closes as the diaphragm contracts, causing the peculiar jerk. The milder forms cannot be betier treated than by following the advice that Eryximachus gave Aristophanes in Plato's day. The Greek philos- ophers had gathered for a discussion. When Aristophanes’ turn came to talk, fe had the hiccups and couldn't speak. Eryximachus, who was a physician, advised him to hold his breath, te gargle some water, or If neither of these remedies were of any use, to tiekie his nose with a feather until he sneemed. The breath holding and the water drinking were of no use, but the tickling did the business. Aristophanes then indulged In a long and poetic rhapsody, to the effect that the tickling had appealed to the har- mony of his body. But Plato, always a hard-headed old philosopher, sald Aristophanes had the hiccups because he had eaten too much. That was thousands of years ago, but Plato sald all there wus to say on the subject of hiceups. But hiccups may appear serious conditions, liver, a new growth in the abdomen or the chest, enlarged glands at the root of the lungs, may, any of them, cause long-continued and persistent hiccups, It is frequently present in the last stages of uremic poisoning, In typhoid fever, in hemorrhage of the brain. During the severe epidemic of influenza in 1017-18, some cases were accompanied with severe hiccups and were known as “hiccuping flu.” It is also found In “sleeping sickness” and in some forms of hysteria, Simple methods are all right for simple cases, but in severe cases more vigorous methods must be tried. Blls- ters or plasters over the back of the neck, cold applications or strapping the lower ribs with adhesive tape or, in cases demanding extreme measures, ether, chloroform or morphine may be r he BE. P. Middleton, judge of Urbana, Ohio, Is getting not only a liberal amount of publicity for himself, but his desk is stacked high with letters asking for coplés of a recent ruling made by him that a speed of 51 miles an hour was not unsafe. In fact, he sald It was just about right for safety, on other conditions. The ruling was made In the case of the state of Ohlo against the driver of a bus operating between Lima and Urbana. The driver was arrested by two officers, who, happened to be pas- gengers, and who swore the speed at- tained “part of the time” was 51 miles | ! | an hour. The driver, E. A. Larrick, | was indicted, tried and found not gullty. Judge Middleton held that “a driver may go 45 miles an bour and still not be gullty of speeding, if the pavement is dry, the road clear and the car in mechanical condition. “If a driver were to pass a school house at recess time at a speed great- er than 15 miles per hour he might be found guilty of traveling too fast, but with a clear, wide roadway nhead, without curves, apd a car mechanical ly perfect, 51 miles an hour is not in excess of the so-called lawful or legal Hmit.” good De 927.141 vehicles registered dur- roads, of 1025, an increase of 10.8 per cent Total motor vehicle registration published July 20 in Motor Ape. eof 1928, covering cars and trucks: 197.602 64,163 177.235 1.450.570 225.810 238.727 40.303 407.777 238.618 se,1081 217.285 890.704 California Colorado Conwectiont Delaware Florida Bemtucky Louisiana Winine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesotin Misslssippl Missouri Montana Nebraska *All Carolina 1926. ts used here, states but North the six months, wording to the 11 ace S (M4 in excess of the figures the first six months TR079 575.237 44.571 1.562.492 “371.353 144.079 1.370.756 490,000 185.6841 1.320.652 #6.652 151,012 185.763 227.778 P04.050 New New Hampshire Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Pe Okishomn Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Isiand South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texans Utah Yermont Virginia Washington Went Virginia Wisconsin Wroming District of Columbia a 1 detalls for the first gix months, which full year WAR ON SCHOOL CHILDREN LIFTS Warnings Dangerous Practice. i C.. and the American sociation came forward with warnings to motorists against the dan- gerous practice of giving “plek up” timely from school. The traffic branded the practice as a breeder of street ac- eidents in which children, playing on the big-heartedness of the motorist, are often the victims, The least that usually happens, Donahue declares, is a nasty traffic gnarl created by the distraction result. tng from a child's ery for a lift and the Interruption of the flow of traffic as the “big-hearted” motorist snakes his way toward the curb In an effort to gratify the wish of the child. Cause of Accidents. “fiundreds of accidents are caused | annually because children do not real- ize that this practice constitutes one of the gravest of highway hazards | and parents and motorists should concentrate their energies on dis- | eouraging this habit which seems to | be manifesting itself on a constantly | larger scale,” the A, A. A. national headquarters declared, Appeal to Parents, In the opinion of both Donahue | and officials of the national meotor- | ing body, the problem calls for full | co-operation on the part of parents and motorists. Neither, they declare, ean afford to shirk responsibility in the matter. Teachers, too, can do much toward discouraging the child from taking such risks, commissioner Turn Spare Tire Realizing that the rear of the car is the wrong, place to carry a spare tire, the efficient car owner at least tries to make the best of it. That is why he mekes It a point to turn the spare around now and again, so that one side of the tire will not always be exposed to the mud, water and oil from the roads. If the tire carrier is guch that the spare must hang In the same position all the time, at least | the shoe can be turned. for Making a Sun Vizor The illustration shows how to make i sun vigor. Threeply veneer is excellent, as It is light and little. 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