Note 9 — Chapter IV · DIET AND STIMULANTS.

“The process of training that has to be undergone by athletes nowadays is reduced to hard-and-fast rules. That these rules are not so good or scientific as could be wished is a matter for regret. The work of training is left to ‘trainers,’ and they are men who, learning from their predecessors whatever facts were known to them, build up a code of rules framed largely on imperfect experience, and added on to by what they themselves have believed to be useful. Medical men of reliable knowledge and sound professional attainments have seldom lent themselves to consider seriously the subject of training, and so place the subject on a sure scientific footing.... Many a man breaks down in training from being made the subject of some imperfect or unsuitable régime.”—Dr. James Cantlie, in “The Book of Health.”