TEST FOR ATHLETES
ARTERIES NOT AFFECTED
FAMOUS ATHLETE SURGEON’S DEMONSTRATION (Sun Cables.) (Received Fob. 14, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 14. Dr. Adolphe Abraham, of Westminister Hospital, lecturing at the Royal College of Surgeons, described a remarkable experiment to test" the effect of athletics on the arteries. “It has been said that prolonged strenuous athletics deteriorated the arteries and I. determined on a test. A specialist removed one of my arteries and revealed that after twenty-seven years athletics and hard exercise. I am as good a man as one wljo lias never undertaken hard exercise." Dr Abraham objected to the tendency to attribute deaths during athletic ' eforts *o heart failure.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10511, 15 February 1928, Page 5
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