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Show DEATH'S CAPTAIN. Tuberculosis, once described as "captain of the men of death," has been demoted, now ranking no higher than ssrgeant. Heart disease is now the "captain," claiming nearly twice as many lives as any other cause of death. Tuberculosis now stands saxth among fatal diseases. Statistics for the year 1929, the last available, show that for every 10,000 of population in the United States, 185 died of organic heart disease. di-sease. Next came cancer, 96; pneumonia, pneu-monia, 92; Bright's disease, 91; apoplexy, apo-plexy, etc., 82, and tuberculosis, 69. The alarming death rate from heart disease and other maladies resulting from a degeneration of the blood vessels ves-sels is attributed by many physicians to the stress and worry of our complex com-plex modern life. Excessive mental or physical work, with insufficient f leep and recreation; the drive of ambition am-bition for success; the intemperate use of stimulants and other modes of "burning the candle at both ends," t'.nds to throw a too heavy burden upon the heart, and if long continued may end1 in collapso. Medical science at present offers little in the way of curative agencies for the condition which these habits bring about. The only means of relief appears to be the abandonment of the praeticen which cause the trouble. Countless lives are shortened because people will not take sufficient rest to enable their bodies to recuperate after nlreriuous mental or physical ac-tivtles. ac-tivtles. 4 A 4. |