MEDICAL VIEWS
WHAT IS HEART DISEASE?
DR. GLOVER'S CANCER THEORY
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(Received 23rd June, 9 a.m.)
OTTAWA, 22nd June.
"Athletic heart" is often a.myth, according to the latest views promulgated at the annual gathering 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 were rheumatic fever and syphilis. Dr. Parkinson insisted that many cases of so-called heart disease were really nervous symptoms. The Canadian doctors decline to take seriously Dr. Glover's germ theory of cancer. The Canadian view gives support to the theory which is supported by the best experience' of Britain, Germany, and America, that cancer follows a bruise or other injury, as the result of which "renegade cells" run wild, and they have no more faith in Dr. Glover's discovery than in Friedman's tuberculosis serum, which was advertised in New lork ten years ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7
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169MEDICAL VIEWS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7
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