Evils resulting from rowing : their cause and remedy / by John Charles Compson, M.D.

  • Compson, John Charles.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Evils resulting from rowing : their cause and remedy / by John Charles Compson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    to dispel the past year's cares from their mental, the past year's dyspepsia from their bodily systems,—all are more or less con- cerned in the matter; and those who have at no period of their lives felt any interest in it are in a decided minority. A somewhat unpleasant state of mind has been occasioned among the boating public—no inconsiderable proportion of our countrymen—by the accounts we have recently heard of the fearful train of evils said to result from their favourite recrea- tion. The subject has lately been taken up by various persons, whose letters and papers in the Times, the Lancet, and other periodicals, have awakened the attention of many besides those personally interested in the matter. It is unnecessary, in con- sidering the subject, to recapitulate all the attendant horrors, because they have al- ready been tolerably impressed upon the general public through the medium of the public prints; and. none of them, so far as I am aware, possesses the charm of novelty for the medical profession, to whom they have all, or nearly all, been known for years. Carefully avoiding the falsehood of ex- tremes, and taking, as far as may be, an
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