Word: overgrowths
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...should never for one instant think of subjecting himself to violent athletic sports. By a common and silent consent, the objection to active exercise passes over the ordinary ill received, and fixes itself almost entirely on one organ, the heart, and there, on almost one malady alone, hypertrophy, the overgrowth of the muscular substance. That this disease can arise from physical exercise there can be no doubt. That it does frequently thus arise in healthy persons, I do not believe. In a long experience I have seen scarcely one case of organic disease of the heart which can be traced...