Heart Disease

When au Individual is repurted lo have ilioil of dlaease of tlte beart, eare in the habit of renard i ng it H8 an Inevitable cvcnt, as soinetliinj; wluelí coald aot liao been foreseen or preveuted, mil t la uu nuich tlie habit, when penoiia suddenly fall down dead, to reoit the beart hs the cause. Ttiis silences ill iinjiiirv and InvssttgHtion and saves the trouble and iuconveniiMire ot post-morum. A. traer report woujd have a tende&oy (osare many liVes. It istlirough a report of disease of (he heart that many au opium eaier is let ott' into the gnmt, whicli covers ac once his lblly and his crime ; the brandy drinker too, quíeüy sudes around tlie corner tlms, a,nd is heard of no inore ; in short, tliis report of dlneaee of the he:irt is the ínnntle ofchirity whicli tlie polite (Joroner and lympaUieUp phyiician tlirow luonnd tlie graves of generoiu people. At a cicntific congress at Strasbourg it was reportM of sixty-six persons who liad íuddi-iily dieil, an ininieiliete and taithtnl posi-inorteiii showed.that only tWO persons liad any beart affectlon whatover - one sudden death in only tlnity-tlnee froin diaeases of tlie heart. Xine out of sixty die of apoplexy - one out of every seven wliile forty-8ix- jnore tban two out ot every three- died of lung affeclion, halt of thein congestión of the lun's, that s, the Iung9 were so full of blood thcv eoOld not work , there was not rodm enokgk tor air to get in to support life. It s, then, ol eonHÍ.l.Tublo pruvtiual interest to know soliie of the noinmou evory dajr pnitaeH of this congestión of the luagt, a disease whicli, the figures above beinjr tme, kills tliree times as many perfOQJ a short niiiing as apojilexy and heart disease together. Cold feet, tight shoes, light clothing, costive bowels, itttilig still iintil chilled (hroagb atter having been uanncd up by labor or a loog, hasty walk; golfig too Bnddeuly from a close, heated room. as a lounger or listener or speaker, while the body is weakened by eontiunal application or abstinence, or heated by a long address; these are the frlgbtfu] causes of sudden death in tlie form of congestión of tlie lunjrs ; but which, beiug falsely reported as disease of the heart, and fegardea as an inevitable event, throw people off their guard instead of jioiiiting them to tlieir true causes, all of which are curable ; and very easily so, as a general rule, when the muid has 'nuce beeu Intelllgently drawn to the subject. -