Show A WARNING AS TO HEART DISEASE If we are correctly informed by bythe bythe bythe the editor of the Journal of tin th American Medical association much heart icart disease which develops In the theuman human uman family could be avoided it if ithe the he public generally was better in- in Informed informed formed ormed in the caring for children In most instances involvement of f the heart takes place insidious- insidious insidiously ly y in Ia childhood and the persons do o not have proper treatment un- un until until til 11 the condition has developed sO sOtar tar far ar that any treatment is ing ng In many schools children are examined regularly and are not permitted to indulge in severe ex- ex if Ie the hearts are found to tobo tobe tobe be bo infected Moreover the presence of in in- Infected tonsils teeth or adenoids which may be associated with the development of heart trouble should hould be determined early trouble and these hese Infected conditions con- con controlled controlled trolled rolled by removal of ot the parts Whenever a decayed tooth or the root of a tooth is associated ted In n the mouth ot of a child with an abscess ot of tho the gums the tooth should be bo pulled The symptoms formerly passed off oce as growing pains are aro lre now believed to to be in most moat instances rheumatic Infections resulting from CroUl infections elsewhere in the body One of the most common causes ot of heart disease as point point- pointed ed out by Dr A. A Levinson is the attempt to take up active life too loo soon after acter passing through measles scarlet fever feer diphtheria or any other infectious disease Rest nest In iu bed during and following infectious diseases is important in I order that the tissues of ot the heart which have been under a severe strain and which h aro are per per- perhaps perhaps perhaps haps degenerated dEg d because of ot the action of at the poisons associated with the bacteria may have havo op op- opportunity opportunity opportunity to recuperate Rest nest in bed means absolute rest The with a defective heart should not be bo permitted to run runabout runabout runabout about and certainly if it has fever should not even be permitted to attend to its own toilet and hy by- giene glene |