The Archive · 1928

ATHLETE'S NOVEL EXPERIMENT

Artery Removed from Arm to Disprove Common Belief London, Feb, 14.

Medical men and athletes are Interested in an experiment made by Dr, Adolphe Abrahams of Westminster Hospital. Dr, Abrahams had an artery removed from his farm to see if his 27 years of strenucus athletics had lad to deterioration of his atte The artery was found to be in normal condition, Dr. Abrahams considers this oes to disprove that athletes suffer ill effects as is often suggested, His brother, H, M. Abrahams, the famous' athlete, expressed' the.

that the real danger in the strenuous life of athletic competi-ion is psychological effect. When you go in for four or five years of competitions of one kind and another the public eye and al we whether to beat the other war. Practically all "the newspapers, however, strongly approve line of inquiry by the Foreign Minister.

'The "Daily Chronicle" says that the enterprise to base a film on Nurse Cavell's' experience is an outrage to her memory.

The Manchester "Guardian,"

looming Sir Austen Chamber-in's letter, says that he expresses ith admirable strength and simplicity the feelings of all who care for a better understanding between the nations. However carefully the story of Miss Cavell's sacrifice be told, the paper declares, it cannot, in our time, be an appropriate theme for the sereen—Reater.

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