MODERN RUSH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 12

MODERN RUSH

... WILL NOT KILL ONE P : OLD HEART BOG IP'S ' LONDON.- -lan. 17. John .Ctilbeit, perfect, lover of the* screen, died.* ut- the ago ol 40 ol h<*.i 11 failure: There was a time when tin* patient! who jieatjl 11 is* doctor murium •‘Heart” felt that sentence of death had been passed on him. That...clay has ended. The old heart bogeys—murmurs, palpitations, athlete’s ■heart ‘‘speed.and stress of modern life ' haVfc been laid. While it is tine that 1C3.902 people diedcin ■ 1934 from causes attributed (o "diseases of the heart, 87.716 ot those live dr* to be more than 60; 41,208 were nearing 80. . . ; A Harley Street heart specialist said : — ‘'For every man who dies ot heart disVease, nine seriously injure their health ,by imagining they have it. OLD STJOTS-TITTON DTEK HARD ■'“Physical overwork can, in the case of au organically weak heart, cause death, hut not mental overwork. few days ;i 140 I wus n ih*ub* '■paper 0f,1864. It recorded that the in creaSejin the number of suicides in that. ■ year*was due to ‘the increasing speed and • stress of modern tile.’ An old supersti- ’ lion that dies hard. The speed and stress of modern life have never killed any one. P ‘•Sb-called ‘athlete’s heart is a sin'•kjtPWr'oL.Ui* Victorian ideal of an alldete

—a lingo, muscle-bound creature. Such a man might easily develop an enlarged flabby heart. With the more scientific training of athletes to-day. 1 doubt- d a. real case of ‘athlete’s heart* is ever found. “Rest and relaxation arc the sovereign remedies for till heart diseases. .More has been learned about the heart in tlie last 25 years lhairabntil any other organ. Direct X-ray photography, new drugs, new anaesthetics, improved 1 real - ment of rheumatic fever, have, all combined to rob heart disease of iL. dangers.