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EXERCISE FREELY IF
FORTY OR OVER.
Men of This Age, Says Dr..
coushIin, Should Go in For
Sports and Be Active.

Men beyond their fortieth year are
earnestly advised by DR.. Robert T..
Coughlin, of Brooklyn, writing IN the
current number of the Medical Rec
ord, to take abundant exercise IN Or
der to keep their systems in repair. :
Such men," writes the physician In
a complimentary strain, ARE a COM
munity's greatest asset. They are at
the head of all great enterprises;
they are the individuals with big
ideas and who put through big
schemes; they are our engineers, in
ventors, bankers, incorporators, pro-
fessors and successful professional
men. We as physicians should try to
study this subject so that we may pro-
long these valuable lives instead OF
allowing ordinary laymen to direct
men regarding their health.
who has not heard of our great
statesmen putting themselves in the
hands of crude trainers and former
trainers Of prize fighters without
medical knowledge and training. The
general results cannot be good, except
for the fact that these men need ex-
p ercise, and need it badly.
Zone noted athlete has lately made
the following statement regarding life
in cities: The New Yorker wants bot
tied stuff to cure him; he has not time
for exercise. Let a physician tell a
man to exercise to cure his rheuma-
tism or his govt or his ne~urasthenia,
or m of his ills that the golden drug
brings on, and he will call the doctor a
fool and demand pills or bottled drugs
that will cure him while he sleeps. It
would take too much time away from
his desk or store to exercise"
DR.. Coughlin especially warns men
who have been athletes in their
younger years against getting out Of
condition.
From the twenty-frst year to the
fortieth," he continues, little may be
said, as most young men have by this
time passed out Of athletic life and
gone into their chosen, vocations. The
eagerness to make a living and the
desire to succeed in life compel them
to be up and doing. AS a Enle degen-
erative changes are not so apparent
and no notice is takenof such changes
until middle life is reached. This Is
the time, however, when habits OF life
are formed. The enlarged heart may
call upon the former athlete for some
stimulation, and instead Of exercising
he takes to drink. One athletically
inclined always athletically bent
would be a good rule"
Speaking Of men well on in years
who have dropped their exercise, DR..
Coughlin declares that there was
something sadly significant in the
death of William Blaikie, a Harvard
athlete in his youth, who took no ex-
ercise in the last year Of his life, and
thus paved the way for the fatal
stroke of apoplexywhich took his life.
after forty" writes the physician
in conclusion, "degenerative changes
are the most likely sequence to an
early active life, especially If, as oc-
ours often, the individual becomes Sc
dentary in his habits. AS a rule men
more than forty do not exercise suh-
GENTLY to keep up metabolism. One
should be on the lookout for high
blood. pressure at this time"
DR.. Coughlin, advises the following
of nearly any kind of good sport. but
considers walking in good style as the
best exercise.