HEART DISEASE.
Old-Fashioned Treatments
Disappearing.
FRUITS OF MODERN RESEARCH
(Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, February 24. ''Nine-tenths of the mystery and much of the fear regarding the human heart has disappeared," said Captain Whitney, secretary of the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, in a statement to the "Daily Mail."
Captain Whitney, commenting on an American case in which a patient suffering from angina pectoris, was relieved by cutting a strip of muscle from the chest and attaching it to the heart, thus providing a new blood-stream, added that the belief that if the heart were touched death would follow was entirely out of date.
"One of our surgeons many times has inserted a long needle into a heart. Even a stab in the heart is not necessarily fatal. Moreover, we now know that the old-fashioned idea of general heart disease, for which the usual treatment was to lie down and do nothing, was largely a bogy.
"We have also dropped the term 'fatty degeneration,' because the trouble is usually not the heart but the fat. The best treatment is to exercise and reduce obesity."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 47, 25 February 1935, Page 7
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