The evening times., 1898-09-07
THE GOLF CURE.
A Doctor Who Thinks 1t Is Good for
Nervous Disorders
lFrom the Chieago Caronicle.l }

(From the Chicago Chronicle)
The distinguished nerve scientist, Dr.
Irving c. Rosse, has written a brief
treatise On Golf From Neurological
Viewpoint that is intended to give a
tremendous impetus to the interest
which the great game of the Scotsman
already commands throughout the
United States.
The doctor says that long before the
Columbian rediscOyery of America the
hardy CaledOnians amused themselves
by playing the royal and ancient game
which has been defined as the putting Of
little balls into little holes with instru-
ments very i'll adapted to the purpose
In those days certain asCetic and Iugu-
briOus persons, like the sham-pious re-
! formers of the present. who condemn as
sinful anything nat makes people feel
happy. cried down golf. football, and
other sO-caIled Improbable sports. which
We're prohibited by decree. the lesfsla-
tive blight being a canon of the old
Scotch parliament against golf.
As it is no easy matter either of law
or police power, to extinguish strong in
stirctS- People gave no I'd 70 suCsl pro-
hibttions against the natural and whole
some promptinSs OF the play impulse and
manly pastimes Of vigorous race and
to-day We find d game with a long pedi-
gree taken up and assimiIated from
spread around the English-speaking
world
Instead of dividing mankind. as soma
mathcmaticians do, into two classes.
namely, those who have read analytical
geometry and those who have not. the
doctor says ii is now more appropriate
10 say those who play golf and those
who do not or as an enthusiastic devotee
10 golf might have put il, those who are
long drivers and those who are not.
What was yesterday the fad of a few
has today become the practice Of many
sorts and conditions Of Eleu. who find in
the exhilaTatiug game of golf means Of
hygiene and sport Of inestinable value
Any golf player familiar with the
niblick shot cut of sand in front Of q
bunker cliff will recognize the cool judS-
ment and prompt action required by L
successful player who makes d good
drive and avoids or eXtriCateS himself
from awkward hazards. as well as the
many advantages entailed thereby in the
way OF inyisorating and healthy employ
u-1t-of h. highest bodily activities
In the capacity of physician and neu-
roloSist the doctor thinks il is impaS-
sible TO familiarize ones self with the
facts of the game in its therapeutic as
pect without seeing its many advantages
and acknowledging is merits beyond all
praise.
To the neurOlOgiSt who trusts to
psychic mechanical and hygienic influ-
ences rather than to drugs for treatment
the theme is repIete with magnificent
possibilities of prophhylaxis and even of
therapeutics. The road is a royal one To
physical eNhilara tion in a game that can
be played all the year round. independ-
ent of atmospheric vicissiuudes, during all
the seven ages of man. by delicate young
girls as well as by strong athletes. and
even decrepit old men. whose declining
powers do not admit of severe exertion.
1t combines exercise, pleasure and fresh
air without the risk of injury to heart.
/ exercises in which thee rs high blood
/ pressure and arterial tension
/ To be more specific. there is absolutely
/ no danger attached TO the game, and
( consequently no accidents eusue Tn
( like the bicycle. it is doubtful whether
I such thing as an accident insurance
was ever paid for injury incurred al golf
( Nor is the game contaminated in heart
/ LESSONS, arterial Qualification, albuEinu-
ria old age childhood ana certain hys-
tericaI conditions which would be aggra-
waited by such exercise as bicycling
swimming. horseback riding or by noun
tain climbing.
] In all affections marked by slowing OF
I oxidation or in those consequent upon
] intoxication by the produces of organic
i disassimiation. the game of golf is 10 be
/ recommended as the best adiuvant meth
! Cd of bringing about a cure.
! The obesity and degeneration of mid
| die age. when the biceps has diminished
/ and ones energy is wanting. may be help
/ ed by devotion TO golf. The further ten
! dency of the exercise is 10 eliminate the
| so-called diatheses. and thus do away
| with gout, lithemia, headache and dys-
! pepsia. while it's hygienic and therapeutic
/ consequences are admissible in cardiac
| and pulmonary affections. Although mod
/ Grafton Is advisable in such circUm-
| stances. 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 il is pre-emnently in functional
nervous diseases that the great Anglo
| Saxon game is 10 be recommended. both
| as prophylactic and curative No exer-
| else or recreation is better for the mental
/ ly overworked, the hystericaI. the melan-
| cholic; none helps to preserve the con-
| certed action of the eye, brain and mus
| Gle known as the psychological moment;
none perhaps. with the exception OF
| swimming. gives one so good an appetite;
| there is not more sovereign remedy for
/ dyspepsia, and as to insomnia such a
tnlnS SCarCely e&lSJS among the OeNOleeS
| of golf.
| Improvement In appetite and digestion
| has come under the notice of nearly ev-
| eryone connected with golf club. Only
two years ago the breezy air of the New
| port golf green caused such an improve
ment in this respect that the members OF
| the club discharged a French for negro
| cook. whose dishes were considered
more wholesome and better suited to a
| golfers appetite.
| DIR. Rosse insists that II there be one In
| nocent recreation adapted more than an
| other to all sorts and conditions. but
| more especially to the cleaning of life.
| when the mind needs an alternative. that
| healthful tendency is TO be found In the
| national game of Scotland.
| Everybody says that Heurich's Maer-
| zen Is the best beer on the market, and