RT Journal
T1 NEtherlands
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD April 6
VO 92
IS 14
SP 1201
OP 1202
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700400059025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700400059025
AB International Congress of Physical Education 
    The Netherlands medical society for physical development created a Netherlands chapter of the Comité international d'éducation physique et sportif, which organized at Amsterdam an international congress of physical education and sports. The congress was held at the time of the Olympic games, and was attended by 200 foreigners and fifty Netherlanders.THE CARDIAC RHYTHM IN RELATION TO SPORT 
    The first topic on the program was "The Cardiac Rhythm in Relation to Sport." Dr. Merklen of Nancy found at the beginning of exercise such a rapid acceleration of the cardiac rhythm that it was impossible to attribute it to the influence of humoral factors or peripheral reflexes. He holds that there must be a relation between the psychic and motor centers of the cortex and the extracardiac centers. This assumption is supported by the fact that the mere thought of a movement is provocative of corresponding