Word: steincrohn
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Peter J. Steincrohn of Hartford, Conn, wrote You Don't Have to Exercise to prove that exercise after 40 is definitely harmful; his rule for fitness from then on is to stay thin and lazy. His latest book, Heart Disease Is Curable (Doubleday, Doran; $1.98), out last week, goes on to show what avoidance of exercise can do for heart disease...
These recoveries, Dr. Steincrohn says, are impossible for patients who refuse to take their doctors' advice. He admits it may be hard to take. A man may feel no pain once his attack subsides, and such a patient is often rebellious when told he needs weeks or months of rest or that he must change forever into a more vegetative life. There was the young man who had rheumatic heart disease...
...Patients. Unruly as most patients (about 4,000,000 incapacitated by heart disease in the U.S.) are the non-patients who should be under treatment. There are uncounted millions of them. Anyone, says Dr. Steincrohn, who has rapid pulse, shortness of breath, palpitation, heart skips, indigestion, gas pressure, fainting spells, asthmatic attacks, cough, swelling of ankles, blue lips or fingernails, who tires easily or spits blood should go to his doctor and find out what ails...
...life has been saved because he was scared into the doctor's office by having a friend fall dead. Another group he urges to the doctor are the five or ten million who suspect they have heart disease but feel normal. Many will get good news. Dr. Steincrohn knows a woman who gave up nearly all exercise before she found out from her doctor that there was nothing wrong with her. She had unnecessarily missed five years of her favorite sport, tennis...
Though he deplores unnecessarily early deaths from heart disease and advises all precautions to prevent them, Dr. Steincrohn thinks heart disease is the ideal way to die. It should be "the grand climax of life, and it ought to occur near the conclusion of the last act-at about 80 or 90 years...