Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-04-21 | Page 5 | What the Heart Means to the Human System

4 P o 3 To ro Wasal b no 11 DAILY HEALTH SERVICE SERVICE- SERVICE SERVICE- I WHAT THE HEART HEART- MEANS HEART MEANS t tI II I TO THE HUMAN SYSTEM Ii v V. By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Journal of the he he American Medical Medic l Association and of Hygeia Hygeia Hy Hy- geia the Health Magazine Every time the heart beats its muscle contracts When the heart contracts the tile blood is out of or orth th the heart into the large blood brood yes yes- vessels s sels ls and this beat is is' felt to the er very limits of at the blood lood vessels The pulse rate is a measure of the Ule rate of df C the heart beat people vary as to the speed at which the tho heart contracts Sometimes s the beat heat is isas isas isas as slow v as 55 or ilO 60 per minute sometimes a 5 as fast as 80 SO It Is possible for a a. disordered l heart to beat slower than 55 65 or og 60 a minute Slow heart beats are I associated strangely enough with thick skull and also with skull frac frac- ture It l is also possible for the thc heart to beat even mor more than 2 0 times per minute A very rapid heart beat is sometimes associated with serious disturbances particularly particularly particularly of of- the thyroid gland RAPID HEARTS Thel The hearts of children and young people usually beat faster caster than those of old people Rather rapid I hearts are are frequently found in young oung women without having ha any definite significance in i relation elation to to their state of health At each e exit or entrance IMo tIle the heart of a blood vessel there are re valves alves These valves prevent present the tho blood from passing b back ck into into- the veins when hen it comes into the heart or prevent it from flowing baCK to the heart When the fter f- f tel tar pushing it out Into the arteries When a 3 mass of blood Is pushed Into a narrow vessel the wall slightly This is what l is called the pulse beaL beat y 0 POWER FOR BLOOD STREAM When the heart beats It forces bloo 1 through the lungs and to the rest of the body In In lungs the blood is given a new supply of ox oxy oxy- gen It Is can carried led by the arteries to the most remote portions of the tho body supplying them with ill the food and particularly t the e oxygen that th they y need j if life UCe Is to be sustained The heart pumps about four quarts of blood a a. minute when the heart is at rest with moderate ex exI exercise ex- ex nine quarts are needed anti and I during severe exercise the heart may pump as much as sixteen quarts ts t per minute