Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thus upon my heart's undarkened ease...
...subject of Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday was "How to Develop the Chest." He began by giving statistics of the death proportion from consumption and tubercular diseases, arising from an imperfect development of the lungs and heart. Such affections are often inherited, or result from occupations and circumstances which tend to produce them. Consumption is, however, easy to prevent by a course of physical exercise. In Harvard, only one man out of three has a perfect chest, the principal imperfections being a flatness on the upper part and depression at the base of the breast bone, compression of the sides...
...following concerning some causes of heart disease, and the evils caused by the use of tobacco, we clip from the N. Y. Tribune. "There is an increase of heart trouble, as there always would be in feverish and hurried lives. Many lives are intense enough to strain the whole human system, and increase and hurry the circulation and finally weaken it. A prominent English physician has written his experience in the matter of athletic exercises. Young men, boys who are not fully developed, strain their young muscles, hurry their breathing and circulation, whether by athletic games or rowing. Of those...
...serious evil. If used at all freely, it most certainly shortens life; and when taken by the young (and boys who are scarcely more than infants are now seen with cigarettes), it prevents full development and dwarfs and twists the whole nervous system. In this weakness the heart shares, and many a weak and trembling heart, which finally stops for very weariness, owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does not follow that human beings will...
...really is in earnest and is serious in his "movement," he may in time be brought to see the absurdity of his position in this country, and to appreciate the fact that he is really doing more harm than good to the cause he professes to have at heart. Our hopes in this way are brightened by some recent utterances of his given in the course of a newspaper interview, wherein Mr. Wilde shows so much discernment and just appreciation that it almost seems that a mere statement of his case to him by an impartial friend would convince...