Show CAN THE HEART BREAK many instances of death being due to grief fear etc grief doe not kill and it is indeed very seldom that heavy sorrow causes death to anyone when in a healthy condition says a writer in the buffalo times it is however very often alie indirect cause of a death either by cringing disease to a climax or by ren dering the sufferer more liable to its attack if a man is convinced that his grief is more than he can bear those who have studied the matter agree thai through the force of his own imagination alie man will actually de of a broken heart alie great napoleon was killed by an internal disease but it is supposed bup posed that it would not have been fatal had not his spirits been so depressed through exile and defeat william platt the orator is said to have died of a broken heart caused by his great grief at the failure of liis cherished liapes and plans and there have been many bolher such instances in the history of this country when plagues are raging in a town statistics shiow that as many die from fright and imaginary causes as from the real epidemic so great a hold lias the fear of death on acome people if a man is condemned to be cliot it has often occurred that on the word fire he has dropped lifeless although through accident or design no bullet has in reality left the gun there is a queer cibie on record concerning the daughter of a celebrated french novelist alio was deeply interested in one of lier fathers stories it appeared in installments and the heroine was suffering from consumption As alie girl blooded brooded over the sad fate of the heroine she too suddenly manifested alie same symptoms A physician recommended the father to restore the heroine to health which he did a few chapters on and at the same time as the girl in the novel recovered so also did his too sentimental daughter |