Show Rapid heart boat beat is often found in healthy in individuals in of all ages agos By Dr amoa W W. Barlon I PHE term paroxysmal A io is when the tho heart rule suddenly be be- becomes comes conus rapid after n a vari varl variable able time II a few seconds s hours or days toys just just as sud- sud sU deny denly goes back to its Ils normal I rate rute During an nn attack the heart rate may lOllY RO go as ns high as beats to the tho minute and then drop to a II rate of or 72 to 70 76 Tho cause en use of this very vry rapid beating t of the heart is un un- unknown unknown known but something shock wor- wor worry ry disappointment Interferes with the starter of the tho heart h arl beats and thu tho bell beat t gets out of Its regular rhythm or orr regularity r t Kot Innately tho great majority of cases CaSl occur In thu tho two Iwo heart chambers tho auricles which receive the blood not thu tho two chambers ventri ventricles ellS cles from which Dr thu ul ioL is pumped to lungs luns and on to all III the Ihl other parts parts' of the tha body Tills This auricle typo Is I not i Dr Ur W. W Woold Ford Council Cunnell In Canadian Medical Association Journal states Paroxysmal auricular cardin Is found In healthy adults of I nil all ages Heart disease may moy or ur I may be present This very rap rap- rapId I Iid Id beating bea may be just for tor a few I beats bell ts or It II may go on for tor as us long longas I as liS six days Attacks lasting a few minutes ore arc much the commonest Neither exercise nor drugs makes any change In the rato ralo whereas in ina a II normal heart or u diseased heart thus and the rate Suddenly Most persons feel discomfort dur duro during ing an attack II a Muttering In the chest or pounding In the neck Usually no treatment Is necessary necessary sary as us the attacks stop suddenly without treatment Many of these Individuals have learned some of preventing or shortening an attack by stimulating the tho largo large nerves supplying heart henrt lungs and digestive apparatus Thus holding the tho breath or pressing with the Ule fin fin- fingers gers cera on first one eyeball and then the he other or pressing firmly on tho large blood vessel In front of neck LL can DO De seen io 0 u u i watched closely or tho drinking of lea Ico water or by bringing on a 8 vom vomit it In tf The drug dru that has been found most useful is f not quinine and It can be given by mouth five grains every hour for 10 hours As this very rapid heart beat not nat naturally alarms the Individual Dr Connell suggests that its lack of danger be explained Tissue Water May Causo Causa Epilepsy It Is sometimes to tell whether a patient Is hysterical or having an on epileptic attack or fit nt However In epilepsy the patient po Is always unconscious and may do harm to himself himself biting biting his tongue or others if not protected In hys hysteria teria the patient Is not unconscious and Is aware of all that he Is doing and nil all that Is going on about him Ile Is usually but not no always trying to be tile the center of attention This Is called a n defensive mechanism While the cause of epilepsy Is I still Ull unknown Investigators have found that food tood Is a factor In caus causing ing attacks as a group of at 11 epileptics tics having one or more attacks a II aday day were kept kep entirely free of at at- attacks attacks tacks by being starved for tor 10 days Other Investigators then found that If It liquids were reduced the epileptic tic attacks topped stopped occurred less often otten or were not so severe From this finding finding excess excess water In the tissues sues lues causes epilepsy a a test for epi epilepsy lepsy has been discovered Epilepsy Test Perfected Dri Du and Peeler in Journal of t Clinical Investigation tell of their study of ot the effects of ot extract of at the pituitary gland in cases of suspected epilepsy This extract has has the effect of ot preventing the escape of water from the tissues by way of the kidneys The patients were forced to drink drinkwater drinkwater water and were then given tho pit pit- In cases of true epilepsy this forced drinking of ot water and the keeping of at it In the body by means of the brought on epileptic attacks A series of other Individuals who were forced to drink large quantities of ot water and were also given did not have any attacks The point then is that before giving ing the regular treatment for tor epi epilepsy lepsy to patients it should first be learned by this method that the case Is really epilepsy The present successful treatment 1 Cut tin 2 down by one half on all starch foods foods bread bread sugar lugar pota pota- potatoes potatoes toes pastries 2 Cutting down dO by one half on all aU liquids water liquids water tea coffee co free milk co co- cocoa coI I coa COli soft or bard drinks I I 2 S. Increasing the tat fat foods but butter ter cream fat meats I I 4 A dally dose of phenobarbital phenobarbitals II s prescribed by a physician b l e. e |