“ATHLETE’S HEART”
POPULAR BELIEF REFUTED ADDRESS AT SCIENCE CONGRESS CANBERRA, Jan. 14. In an address to the Science Congress, Dr. Frit Duras< director of physical education at the University of Melbourne, said that there was np such thing as "athlete’s heart,” and violet physical exercise did not enlarge the heart. The smallest hearts, ,Dr Duras said, were found in footballers, the next smallest being in boxers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23708, 16 January 1939, Page 10
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