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Show TliK practico has become all but universal uni-versal of attributing tho death of public pub-lic pcrsous to "heart failure." It would bo as logical to attribute every death to lung failure or bruin failure. Heart, lungs, brain, all the vital organs or-gans cease their functions with the censing of life. Failure of heart is only one of the necessary concomitants of death, equally with failure of tho respiratory or digestive organs. There are cases of heart disease in which possibly tho phrase "heart failure'' may have some such vuluo us is sought to be imparted to it by the erroneous popular use of the words. Nine times in ten, however, this use is simply nonsensical, |