HEART FAILURE | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 34.

HEART FAILURE.

THE American Analyst thinks it would be an excellent idea if physicians of the present day would invent some other reason for about all the deaths which occur nowadays from heart failure. It is difficult for anyone conversant with the organs of the human body to understand how any human being can die without heart failure, while the causes of the failure of the heart at death are numerous. This might not be of serious moment were it not for the fact that hundreds of people are being nearly frightened to death by the constant use of the cause of sudden deaths, and many persons who are sick, and necessarily have some heart symptoms, are kept in constant terror by reading or hearing in other ways of death after death by heart failure. It would be well if physicians who are too indolent or too ignorant to search out the cause of the disease lying back of the heart failure to consider how much harm they are doing the community, and if they cannot correct the habit, the newspapers and the public should avoid giving currency to this unfounded and dangerous phrase. There are probably no more deaths from heart failure in these times than heretofore, but a new cause for death has been coined, and the nervous and timid are being severely injured by it.—Selected.