“ATHLETIC HEART”
OFTEN NERVES, SAY DOCTORS OTTAWA, June 21. “Athletic heart” is often a myth, according to the views of prominent medical men given to 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 were rheumatic fever and syphilis. He insisted that many cases of so-called heart disease were really nerve symptoms. The medical men decline to take seriously Dr. Glover’3 bacillus theory of cancer. They believe in the theory that cancer follows a bruise or injury , and is connected with the “running wild” of renegade cells. They have no more faith in Dr. Glover’s theory than in Dr. Friedman’s tuberculosis cure, largely advertised in New York ten years ago.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19056, 8 July 1924, Page 9
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