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Dead Rebs & Asthma. He was born at 28 East aoth Street in Manhattan on Oct. 27, 1858, a calm evening that followed days of strong northeast wind and record tides. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, a merchant-banker, of a Dutch family famous for seven generations in New York philanthropy, was a "Lincoln Republican." His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia-bred secessionist. One of T.R.'s first memories was about how he cheered for the Union and about how he would cheer even louder to reply to his mother's discipline. One night at family prayers Theodore...
...raise Theodore ("Teedie"), a brother and two sisters amid days in which, sister Corinne recalled, "the hours flew on golden wings." But Theodore, as he grew older, was nonetheless a boy sorely beset. "I was a sickly, delicate boy," he wrote, "and suffered much from asthma. One of my memories is ... of sitting up in bed gasping, with my father and mother trying to help me." His arm muscles were so weak that he could not stand up to other youngsters. One day his father encouraged him: "You have the mind but not the body . . . You must make your body...
...athletics, however, T.R.'s energy served him well, for it brought him somewhat closer to his fellows. Though not a great, or even a good college athlete, Roosevelt had taken to exercise to build up his asthma-weakened body. Endurance became a fetich with him, and he took great pride in outdoing his friends...
...Superior General, Father Janssens has never allowed intermittent bouts with asthma and high blood pressure to keep him from his order's austere regimen. His day begins at 5:30 a.m., with Mass, meditation and thanksgiving (by the rule of St. Ignatius, every Jesuit must spend four hours a day in prayer). By 9:15, with his iron bedstead curtained off, he transforms his bedroom into a study and tackles the day's work, sitting on a straight-backed chair behind a large wooden desk (another straight-backed chair for visitors and three shelves of books complete...
Although no doctor knows quite how the springs work, there is some evidence that they often work very well. One follow-up survey showed that the water cure helps between 53% and 70% of patients with certain types of asthma, improves more than half of the patients with skin diseases. Most French doctors let their patients take the waters on the theory that they will do no harm, and may do some good. "Cures always have a hygienic value," says Professor Pierre Delore of the University of Lyon's Faculty of Medicine. "They are an occasion for giving calm...