Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-12-07
GOLF PRAISES.
The benefits ofGolf.

DR.. Irving G. Rosse, of Washington
late professor of diseases of the nervous
system In Georgetown University, is 8
most enthusiastic believer in the game ol
golf. In the course of paper, "Goli
from Neurological Viewpoint" read be.
| fore the American Neurological Associa-
ton, he said:
Doubtless from the sportsman's point
of view and that of the hygienist, the
value of golf is apparent, but it's the
rapeutic value, not SO well established,
is practically an untroddsn field, and in
need of an exponent.
In the capacity Of physician and neu-
rOlogist it is imp ossibIe to familiarize
ones self with the facts of the game in
this relation without seeing it's many ad-
vantages and acknowledging its merits
as beyond all praise.
To the neurologist, who trust to
psychic, mechanical, and hygienic iniu-
ences rather than to drugs for treatment,
the theme is replete with magnificent
possibilities of prophylaxis and even of
therapeutics. We have q royal road to
physical exhilaration in game that can
be played all the year around, independ-
emily OF atmospheric vicissitudes, during
all the seven ages of man, by delicate
young girls as well as by strong ath-
letes, and even by decrepit old men
whose declining powers do not admit
of severe exertiOn- 1t combines exercise,
pleasure, and fresh air, without risk of
injury to heart, lungs, or nervous sys.
TEN, as is the case in certain other exer-
cises in which there is high blood pres
sure and arterial tension. THERE'S abso-
lutely no danger attached to the game,
and consequently no accidents ensue.
Unlike the bicycle, it is doubtful if such
thing as an accident insurance was ever
paid for injury incurred at golf. Nor is
the game contrained in heart LESSONS,
arterial calcifcatioD, albuminoria, old
age, childhood, or certain hysterical con-
ditions which would be aggravated by
such exercise as bicycling, swimming,
horseback riding, or by mountain
climbing.
/ may say that in all affections marked
by slowing of oxidation or in those con-
sequent upon intoxication by the pro-
ducts of organic dissemination, the
game of golf is to be recommended as
the best method of bringing about q
cure.
The obesity and degeneration of mid
die age, when the biceps has dimished
and ones energy is falling, may be help
ed by devotion togolf. The further ten
dency of the exercise is to eliminate the
so-called diatheses, and thus do away
with gout, litbRmia, headache, and dys-
pepsia, while it's hygienic and therapeu-
tic consequences are admissibly in car
diac and pulmonary affections.
Although moderation is advisable IN
der such circumstances, there can be no
doubt of the benefit derived in some
cases of cough, nervous asthma. and in
affections OF the bladder and prostate
but it is prominently in functional ner-
vous disease that our great Anglo-Saxon
game is to be recommended both as
prophylactic and curative. No exercise
or recreation is better fitted for the
mentally overworked, the hysterical,
the melancholic none helps to preserve
the concerted action of eye, brain, and
muscle known as the psychological NOM
eDt none, perhaps with the exception
of swimming, gives one so good an ap-
petite there is not q more sovereign
remedy for dyspepsia and 80 to insom-
MIA, such thing scarcelv exists among
the devotees of golf-Fyom the Chris
Aan Advocate Of NoU. "a, 1895.