University oars : being a critical enquiry into the after health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race, from the year 1829 to 1869, based on the personal experience of the rowers themselves
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University oars : being a critical enquiry into the after health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race, from the year 1829 to 1869, based on the personal experience of the rowers themselves
（Cambridge library collection, . Cambridge）
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1873
Includes indexes
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University Oars is a compilation of letters of response to the author from the participants of the Oxford and Cambridge boat races. John Edward Morgan, himself a former university oarsman and physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, spent four years sending inquiries and compiling responses in his effort to shed some light on an important perceived physiological problem which he sought to investigate for the welfare of the rising generation. Published in 1873, his responses numbered 251 out of 255 letters sent to university oarsmen, detailing the athletes' current physical and mental condition. Morgan's findings dispel the widely held notion of the time that the famous test of strength and endurance had adverse latent physiological and psychological effects on its stalwart participants.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- University oars
- Tables
- Index.
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