School hygiene : the laws of health in relation to school life / by Arthur Newsholme.

  • Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943.
Date:
1887
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    injured. This is now well recognised under the name of the tennis-arm/' It is due to injury of certain ligaments, or a small muscle near the elbow-joint. The only remedy is abstinence from the game for a prolonged period. Football has the unenviable reputation of being the pastime which is, far above all others, liable to be accompanied by serious or even fatal accidents. Scarcely a week passes in the football season, but several accidents are recorded in the news- papers j and the following are but a few of many culled by the Lancet in the course of a few weeks ;—-'A had his right leg broken by a cross kick. ^5, while engaged in a match, was kicked in the stomach ; but, feeling better afterwards, he finished the game. He died, some time afterwards, from in- ternal injuries. ^'C had his collar-bone broken. *'Z>V left leg was broken clean through. ''E received a severe kick on his left leg, by which two bones were broken just above the ankle. while running with the ball, slipped forward and was fallen over by those pursuing him, his back being broken in the melee. Two cases have come under my own observa- tion within the last month. In one, a knock on the chest by an opponent's knee caused complete collapse and uncon- sciousness, and the patient at the end of three weeks remains weak and shaken. In the other, the nose was cut across in a fall, and severe haemorrhage occurred. The Committee on Athletics at Harvard University,U.S.A., about a year ago, being convinced that the game of football, as at present played by college teams, is brutal and demoralising to players and spectators, and extremely dangerous, proposed to request the faculty to prohibit the game. We confess that this is, in our opinion, the only reasonable conclusion. Unless the game can be radically altered—for fatal accidents happen with both Rugby and Association play—the sooner another game takes its place the better. Charging should be for-