| Show J f 1 i YOUR HEART AND YOUR FUTURE It i I We know that great progress ha has been made durings during s the past 30 years in the battle against th the heart diseases 1 I i. i more more in fact than in the preceding 30 centuries J We Y know for example that the he use of antibiotics has almost wiped out syphilitic heart disease and that these killing strep drugs can sharply reduce rheumatic fever q d a forerunner of rheumatic heart disease Antibiotics Antibiotic now no can cure 75 per cent of those stricken with bacterial infection infection f tion of the heart lining which formerly was fat fatal l in al almost almost al- al most all cases High blood pressure a major cause of heart disease jl f is beginning to yield to treatment And surgery today can cani i It work veritable miracles in correcting congenital or acquired II i heart defects I 11 Speaking Speaking- more more generally we know now that some some I ii forms of f heart heart disease disease dis a e can be prevented a few cured and andall andall all can be cared for forest est i diagnosed early But the heart ana blo blood d ves vessel el diseases despite all of this his great pr progress gr J remain m n the he leading cause of death year ear after and throughout nation 1 year our In 1955 the l latest t st sty y year ar for which statistics are complete y deaths deaths or or 53 per cent of the total in the nation from all causes were causes were due to the heart diseases Moreover More More- Moreover I over persons in the United States a half million mil mil- million j lion of them children are victims of one or another form of these diseases |
