Doctor's Merry-go-round for the Middle-Aged A new crusade against old ago was enthusiastically opened at the College of Ambulance, 56, Queen Anne Street, by Colonel Sir James Cantho, KBB, MB, F.ROS., LID., who considers that there is no need for anyone to grow old.
In his opening address he asserted that the man of 40 or 50 should be at his best. As a rule he was not because he felt when he became middle-aged that he must give up the activities of his youth. He made the fatal mistake of sinking into an easy chair and taking little or no exercise. The result was that he usually developed rheumatism and died years before there was the slightest necessity to die.
Sir James mentioned that during the war he examined hundreds of middle-aged men who wanted to know if they were fit to go into the Army. He found that only about: 5 per cent. were fit. In nearly every case the heart was unfit for any extra strain.
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