Grand Rounds--Hammersmith Hospital: Hazards of running a marathon
- 5 April 1997
- Vol. 314 (7086) , 1023
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.314.7086.1023
Abstract
The notion that participating in strenuous physical exertion could be hazardous to health dates from 490 bc, when Pheidippides allegedly dropped dead after running 39 km to Athens and delivering news of victory over the Persians on the battlefield at Marathon.1Keywords
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