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Show Rapid Heart Often Due to Nervousness By DR. JAMES W. BARTON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHEN an individual is sitting quietly and his heart suddenly begins to beat very rapidly twice as fast a; normal he is I nn.v,c naturally going TUUAI 0 to become wor- HEALTH suddenly as COLUMN the rapidity I ' started up, it stops, and the heart rate is back to 72 or to again. When the heart beats rapidly, it is called tachycardia tachy-cardia - "tachy," meaning fast, and "cardia" the heart. When the rapid beat occurs suddenly, lasts for minutes or hours, and stops suddenly, it is called paroxysmal tachycardia. tachy-cardia. , While the cause of paroxysmal tachycardia is said to be unknown the cause in some cases is believed to be nervousness, disappointment, dis-appointment, worry or some other depressing de-pressing emotion. I have one case in mind of a teacher who had worked and planned for two years to take a certain cer-tain trip and at the last moment circumstances cir-cumstances prevented pre-vented his trip. I Dr. Barton From that time he began to have attacks of paroxysmal tachycardia which were controlled by the drug quinidine sulphate, now in general use for these attacks. Others -state that these attacks occur when they have to do some special work or duty which is unfamiliar or distasteful. Attacks Not Dangerous. The treatment of this common type of rapid heartbeat is to assure the patient that there is no danger to life. This assurance is often all that is necessary to prevent further fur-ther attacks. These attacks can sometimes be stopped by pressing on the nerves of the neck running along the "cord" which runs from back of ear to breast bone. However, in some forms of tachycardia tachy-cardia where there is also some disturbance dis-turbance of regularity (rhythm), of the heartbeat, rest in bed is absolutely abso-lutely necessary, in addition to the quinidine sulphate. The thought then is when the heart suddenly begins to beat rapidly, is not to become frightened, but to send for your physician. If it is the common type, he can prescribe the quinidine sulphate. Neurology And Psychiatry TN MY student days there was not much instruction given on "behavior" "be-havior" problems, or psychiatry. Today most neurologists combine with neurology (knowledge of nerves) the study of behavior (psychiatry) (psy-chiatry) and are thus qualified to tell us when the symptoms are due to a disturbance of the nerves themselves them-selves or whether the emotions, circumstances, cir-cumstances, surroundings are affecting af-fecting the individual's judgment and so affecting his behavior. When there is no real disturbance or change in the structure of the nerves or nerve tissue, yet the individual in-dividual behaves abnormally, the condition is called a neurosis. A simple classification of the neuroses neu-roses is outlined by Dr. A. L. MacKinnon, Mac-Kinnon, Homewood sanitarium, Guelph, in the Canadian Medical Association As-sociation Journal. This classification classifica-tion makes it easy for us to understand under-stand such common conditions as neurasthenia, hypochondriasis, hysteria, hys-teria, psychasthenia and anxiety states. 1. Neurasthenia: A condition of mental and physical tiredness. 2. Hypochondriasis: A hypochondriac hypochon-driac is a patient who has the fixed idea that he is suffering from organic or-ganic disease, when no disease is present. 3. Hysteria: Where patient thinks he cannot walk, cannot remember throws himself about but never hurts himself because he is conscious not unconscious as in epilepsy 4. Psychasthenia: "Psych" means mind or nervous system, "a" means not, and "thenia" means strength-thus strength-thus mind or nerves are not strong and there are thus fears, obsessions a feeling that he "must" do certain things. 5. Anxiety states: A continuous state of anxiety with rapid or hard beating of the heart, breathlessness nausea and vomiting, and diarrhoea. " QUESTION BOX Q. What causes a bluish-green discoloration under the eyes? A.-BIue green discoloration is usually due to small broken blood vessels. May be due to a run-down condition, injury and other causes Q -Please give me some advice as to the worth of olive oil as a cure for a sore throat and its effect upon some. y " A.-Cause of sore throat should be invest.gated by your physician It may or may not be serious. Q -Is it possible to purchase bile salts in a drug store, or u! have a physician's prescription" ABile salts should be prescribed by your physician if he thinks hey are needed m your case. y Q- In the case of long stanrfi sinus trouble, would the tak S, several glasses of orange dai sinus conditions. auvlsale in |