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Show they become a habit. If he thinks drugs are necessary, do exactly as he prescribes. Go back to him regularly for a check-up." . . I PEOPLE MAY LP7E LONG WITH HEART DISEASE How heart disease can help you to live a long, full life is discussed dis-cussed in a current advertisement by the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Kala-mazoo, Mich. Quoting an anonymous anony-mous doctor the advertisement states : "Too few of us realize that a majority of the 4,400,000 persons with heart disease recover, or improve im-prove sufficiently to go back to work and live busy, enjoyable lives for a full span of more than sixty years. Better trained physicians, better diagnosis by electrocardiogram, electrocardio-gram, fluroscope and X-ray, and a wider choice of drugs, makes outlook for heart trouble considerably consid-erably more hopeful today than ten or twenty years ago. Some heart cases are so mild that they require no special medication, only on-ly careful supervision. An acute heart attack always calls for immediate im-mediate treatment but need not recur. If you're examined and told, 'Your heart's not perfect, but there's nothing to worry about then don't worry. Remembers that ( a mild heart condition which makes you take it easy may add years to your life." The reader is then advised, "If you think you have heart trouble, see a physician. "At the first sign of undue shortness of breath, swelling of the ankles, a pain beneath the breastbone, or what you think is 'indigestion,' go to your doctor. He will know whether these are symptoms of heart trouble. "If your doctor finds it is your heart, he will immediately outline a program for you which eliminates elimi-nates needless worrk and strain, and provides the proper work and exercise. Your doctor will tell you what to eat and drink, and will discuss smoking with you. "Write out your -doctor's instructions in-structions and follow them until |