ATHLETIC HEART.
"OFTEN A MYTH."
fUl' ,CABL£-rfcJSfSS ASSOCIATION coraiiGirr.) (AUSTRALIAN AXD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
OTTAWA, June 22,
Athletic heart is often a myth,-ac-cording to the latest views promulgated -at the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association.
Dr. John Parkinson, a London heart specialist, declared that there was no evidence to show that heavy smoking injured the heart permanently. The main causes of heart disease wer,; rheumatic fever and syphilis. Dr. Parkinson insisted that many cases of so-called heart disease were reallv nervous symptom?.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18107, 24 June 1924, Page 10
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