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A Common Sense Use Of The Bicycle Will Injure No One

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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There isone muscular structure whieh bicycling, like every i'onn of physical exertion, compela to do extra work- the heart - and apon its integrity depend not only liealth and physical vigor, bul also life itself. It bas often been asserted that wheeling is apt to injure the heart. Is this so? I can only say that, theoretically, it is impossible for such harm to result in sound people, save f rom attempt to attain a high rate of speed, or from prolonged and fatigning rides, or from climbing hills which' are either very steep or very loug; and practioally I have been unable to iind authentic records of any case in which heart disease has been caused by tlie use of the wheel in a sensible and moderate way. It may be added that the existence of organic heart disease does not, in the opinión of a number of physicians of great ability, always debar cycling. Indeed the wheel is actually recoinmended by some as a valuable aid in tlie treatment oí certain affections of thia organ. ïhere is a stricking resemblance between bicycling and walking, so far as their effects on the heart are concerned, eitber may be healthful or harmful. Excessive exertion in eitlier is dangerous, moderate exertion is beiieficial. That cycling is more apt to do harin than walking can hardly be denied. It is much more temptation to ride than to walk fast on the level ; and the hill cliinbinsi on the machine, even at a moderate speed, is more of a strain than walking np the same hill at a speed proportiouately moderate, and very few people seem to have sense enough to get off and walk when going up hills. It is safe to assert tbat for a persou capable of acting with common sense no harm will come from eitlier, and certainly ao more from the one

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Ann Arbor Courier