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Show SEE NO HARM IN ATHLETICS Tests Made on Various Athletes by French Medical Men No Bad Effect on Heart. French medical men after a number Of tests have agreed that athletics do not affect the heart, as has been generally gen-erally supposed. Tests were made by members of the Academy of Medicine n Paris on runners, jumpers, hurdlers, javelin hurlers and bicycle riders immediately im-mediately after their performances. "Hypertrophia resulting from athletic ath-letic exertion is a normal reaction of the heart and works absolutely no harm." declared Dr. Boigney, head of commission making tests, afterward. "I have no hesitation in endorsing athletics ath-letics as beneficial to the body and mind of both men and women." Prof. Boigney's findings are in direct opposition to the assertions of Professor Profes-sor Basile of the Paris academy who before the war alleged that athletics overstrained the heart and shortened life. |