Teddy+Asthma+Jemmy

===|| HOME || CAUSE || EFFECTS || TREATMENT || PREVENTION || Theodore Roosevelt || QUIZ || NOTES || MLA ||=== =Theodore Roosevelt - His experience with asthma = ====Theodore Roosevelt had asthma when he was a kid. He was so sick that he couldn’t even go to school or play with other kids; he was privately tutored until he went to college. At the time, asthma was not a well studied disease; doctors recommended him to take “vacations on the coast”, “smoke cigars”, and to “drink whiskey and coffee”, but none of these treatments worked. When Roosevelt turned 12, his father told him the importance of developing his body. Legend has it that he was later bullied by a group of stronger boys, after that lecture. To prevent that from happening again, he was settled on building his strength, and so his father built a gym for him. Roosevelt began taking boxing lessons. Eventually, his asthma disappeared and his strength increased. By the time he went to college, he was quite athletic, and shown below in his colledge rowing outfit.====