New Diseases
Every new form of sport or locomotion develops (according to sundry medicoes) a specific malady. Thus we have had bicycle knee, tennis elbow, golf wrist, and motor face. Aeroplane lungs promise to be the latest addition to the list of medical terrors. Some years ago, when the present writer was in New York^ one of the local qualified fighters of disease discovered (whether rightly or wrongly this depo- ' nent sayeth not) that the passing craze -of the time, pingpong, developed a painful inflammatory condition of the ankle joint. The new disease was promptly labelled by a New York evening paper as ' the -ping-pong pang.'
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New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1909, Page 1729
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106New Diseases New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1909, Page 1729
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