CURE OF DISEASE
SMOKING NOT INJURIOUS. ' GERM THEORY OF CANCER DISCREDITED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyriglrt. OTTAWA,. June 22. The “athletic heart” is often a myth, according to the latest views promul gated at the annual gathering of tin Canadian Medical Association. . Dr John Parkinson, a London hear! specialist, declared that there was no eyidence to show that heavy smoking in. jured the Heart permanently. Uw mail causes of heart disease were rheumatk fever and syphilis. Dr Parkinson insisted that many cases of so-called heart disease were really nervous symptoms. _ Canadian medical men decline to tak( seriously Dr Glover’s germ theory p; cancer. The Canadian views myo sup port to the theory, which is behind tin best experience in Britain, Germany, am America that cancer follows a bruise oi iniury. renegade cells running wild. Thus have no more faith in Dr olover s dl® covery than they have in Friedmann,] tuberculosis serum which was advertise in New York ten years ago.—Sydney. Cable. ______
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19206, 24 June 1924, Page 7
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