Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-09-02 | Page 40 | Shoulder Stoop Causes Old Age, Physician Finds

Shoulder Stoop I Causes Old Age Phys Physician Ic ian Finds I PORTSMOUTH Sept 1 W t D Di Peter MacDonald startled the British Medical as- as association as conference here hero by stating that a 0 stoop of the tho shoulders causes old age age- agea ec a direct Inversion erslon of ot the tile pop pop- popular popular pop popular ular theory He said that b by follow follo log Ing the adIce ad Ice of ot a h man he threw a score of ot years from his shoulders I I a wai as reeling old and de- de decrepit de dc decrepit explained Dr Mae Mac MacDonald Mac Donald Donald when I picked up a book publIshed by this lay lay- layman layman lay layman man from a bookstall I as as then a prematurely Aged t ged ed man mao I I saw the author and nd he toM told me that I was WoUl w ia old simply because e I Under the th treatment he Iw he laid down I off oft my In feu fe I 1 became I a i differ differ- different different ent ept man Dr Is la an up- up upright up-richt up right looking man I with uth an eyeglass C and when hen ho stretched himself to his full height heigh t and carefully adjusted his monocle he ho looked barely io 30 years ears of age ate We e doctors doctor he ho said arc too l prejudiced against laymen I yme who sho make a study or of o a tain tam subject and often orten learn more than 1 we uc e do all allour allour allour our knowledge of ot medicine and surgery We Ve haic hae e accepted the Idea that the th stoop sloop of the shoulders shoulder and nd the bend of the neck are Inevitably linked up with Ith old age I know it will soun sound un- un unorthodox un unorthodox orthodox to you all to 10 suggest kucs that old ago age Is brought on bi b this b this Stoop of ot the shoulders but butI butI I ha baic baie e been convinced that It ItIs Iti ItIs Is i no 80 30 the stance of ot the body seems to be bo bound up with Ith th period one can live and If every man would hold himself himself him- him self elf upright ho he would Ile many 3 ears cars longer IheI I