H
HEART
OW all are you? 267 35? 657 It makes no difference. Whatever your age, what- ever your sex, I want to remove a fear that today grips too many minda and
hearts, young and old.
But
This might be called a report on a "broken heart." It is no sentimental tale of a lover in distress whatever that title may suggest. something much more serious
Let me go back to my early days. Fiercely ambitious as all young should be, I aimed high and hopefully at £5,000 year, which was bigger money then than it is today. For yeara I worked long and hard hours. By 40 I was in an editor's choir,
I played hard too, In suminer hours Dĺ relaxation 1 exercised my soft, chuirborne
me,
by
– THE - AUTHOR · AT · NIS · HAMK-IN THE COUNTRY...........
TOM CLARKE
*
Each wook now victims dia-50,000 year of the new scourge of our times: coronary thrombosis. This is the story of ono man, a distinguished author and former editor, and how he conquered "disastar."
of convalescence, I wondered anxiously about my future.
on salt and starches and fats. They tend to gum up the arteries, cod I did mies milky rice puddings and the suct ones with ayrup my mother used to make so well in Lancashire.
The entry reads: "Thurs day, 12. Out to Lady Astor's to meet their Majesties. Like them very much. The King offered to send me a case of brandy."
Scratched out
The words in the last sen- tence after "King" were scratched out. In place she wrote: cussed prohibition."
1
their ... dis-
When their Majesties and the Fords spent two hours-to-~. gether in April 1928 prohibl tion was all the law.
Henry Ford was a famous teetotaler, I suspect the King knew it.
I'm back on them occasionally now, though, for the new view while
in medicine is that "a little of
I discovered this dlory entry spending n half-day personal what you foney does you good." reading through the
Ford papers of Mr and Mrs Once when I even suggested here in their 56-room home at muscles at golf, swimming, and casting and writing were denied the world. Much of the pluncer oysters the doctor sent me off Fair Lane. in winter on altis and skates.
work in electrocardiography was Iramediately for as many as I done at the Colchester Heart could afford, adding, "And don't It has just been dedicated by I never gave my heart or its
daughter-in-law," Mrs Later, when skilled doctoring problems a thought as I pushed (and devoted nursing)
had Hospital during the first world get frightened if you fancy you their
the Ford get a heart pain. It'll probably Edsel Ford, along life jolly rond in top brought me through the canyons war under Sir Thomas Lewis. be nothing but Indigestion." archives. This is the first act gear, enjoying every minute.
in the 50th anniversary celebra- Then Americans like Dr Frank
As a lifelong smoker and lover tions of the Ford Moter Com- Then one day nearly ten years
Wilson and Dr Samuel Levine of "nightcap," I saw no point pany. ago, I had just Anished a broad-
"Well, it's up to you," said (now one of the world's most in giving up when 60. Again, eminent heart specialists) there was no objection offered to "This isn't the end of your worked with him, and they have these comforts in moderation." frightened, But I kept my head life, but merely change of been largely responsible for the So now it's three ounces a week
and a bottle a month. and took a cab homo, The direction. You should consider more recent
Ford I am writing in the doctor looked grave. My heart giving up town exeltements, and electrocardiography.
Too many people stop work! library
Alled antong shelves had found me out, I had joined go to live quietly in the country,
at 00
thereabouts and, with his books. Me had a habit To return to the personal whether they have a heart or of
as book- using banknotes thrend. With that questing not, seem to me to "persuado" | marks,
themselves into invalidism. With curiosity that marks
all
nothing to do. but contemplate | After his death they found journalists I sought from my the past they soon go to places. declur an expert's explanation
cast to troops overseas when my the specialist. speech falled, and 1 strange tiredness came over me. I was
the coronary thrombosis queye. for a time, anyhow,"
In those days the queue waa
growing. This particular form
of heart' ailment was regarded
as the deadliest sentence of death in fact,
The 'new' me
developments of
Karley Street,
set about "BUT this can't happen to of what had happened to my
kindly but golemn,
snatching me from the grave.
ME," I protested. "It is "broken" heart.
They succeeded-a "miracle" in sentence of denih," those times.
Few people Get broken For the former 'you, yes," he hearts," he explained, "not oven replied, "but the new 'you' neod not die. In 20 years time, lovers! And yours is by no means
or
Now tamed
Found £14,000
more than £14,000 worth in this room.
Glasgow born, 00-year-old Robert Rankin, who was Ford's personal chauffeur, showed mo over Fair Lane. IVE me the tough old birds}. Rankin said: "God should who keep on, work as long make more men ilke Henry if you live wisely, your friends broken. One of the coronary as they can and get the best out Ford." will be saying. "Why, there's arteries that feeds the heart with of life. old Tom Clarke still alive and blood became blocked by a clot, I have the grand kicking.""
or thrombosis, that put a valve privilege of offering myself
temporarily out of action."
A witness
So today
as a living witness to the progres I didn't belleve him, of course. of medical selence, co a living I told him I couldn't afford it, evidence that a heart attack Against that he quoted Rusin's doesn't mean a'man is "Onished "There is no wealth but Life." and done with," and must be a
The years have passed. bock-numbered invalid for the have come to feel better-and rest of his life.
to look better, BO my friends Sometimes I feel like the say than ever in earlier days, American who wrote. "Thank
God for 3315 hear! attack,"
"Like a car sparking a cylinder
short?"
I
"Could be," he said.
No rice
How can I account for this gift
he was certain that it of a second prime of life? It
ing him to understand his heart to adventure into a discussion
the arteries had to be
who believed. In Rankin sold to
The man In town' the other day a man reincarnation I hadn't met for yours sald, “I before he died: "The only thought you had retired to the thing I want when I return to "It's true this world is to have the same country for good."
I wife, I'm living in the country," replied.
'But retired!
Never, while I
have something to do.
I have learned to go on living with a once-rebol heart now! tamed.
have my layman's
becable, used his life by tench- would be stupid, for a layman S "decarbonised" as it were, tribute to medical science for and to go on living happlly and on the mysteries of arteries and Everybody who has had "a heart" cornering the dragon of coronary
blood pressures, Or to try to knows the longer with it.
ritual of pilis and thrombosis. The fight, all goes
Fut some time after the attack.lain the penetrating medical injections and a "balanced diel" on, of course,
researches that have robbed of lean
mest. and fresh doctor's job..
I was without power of speech coronary thromboels of its terrors vegetables, with a variety
of
or movement. I remember and made possible the recovery ferner gastronomie delights for- muing his Ilay, Immobile after of no fewer than 85 percent of bidden. blood transfusions and electro- those attocked by this Illness of cardiography & Liat Providence tiredness, stress, and sometimes was great handleapper,
worry.
to
and it is the
But all of the laymen kan help
him by a common-sense-and, unfeightened seeking and ac-
Yet I don't seem to have had ceptance of, his advice. ⠀⠀ Let give up very much, evén him examine you and in theso though I regarded myself as new and hopeful days as likely
I had talked too much, written In the great; crusade British something of a sybarite in the as not ho'll be able to tell you: Loo much and now both broad- doctors and 'sefentista have led past. Of course I had to go easy. "Be of good heart."
J
-Newell Rogers
SHELL
COCKROACH
KILLER DOES kill cockroaches!
MACKINTOSH'S
Alexandra House
Des Voeux Road.
The level of the unburnt oil in the reservoir, of this eighteenth-century lump clock marked the hour. (Reproduced by kind permission of the Science Museum, London).
Measuring
the hours
with an Oil Lamp
Box
Lov SCOUTS, they say, are taught to find the points of the compass with a pocket watch, bur the North Germans of the eighteenth century went one better. They told time by means of an oil lamp and derived a pleasant form of illumination into the bargain 1 The reservoir of this pewter lamp was graduated to mark the hours from 8 pm, to 7 a.m., the level of the unburnt oil showing
the time.
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A landmark in the history of
·Time measurement