I read a biography of Theodore Roosevelt, who suffered from asthma when he was young. Apparently they used to try all kinds of crazy shit on him whenever he had an asthma attack, like making him throw up, smoke cigars, or drink alcohol.
Also, what ultimately stuck based on your previous/current best understanding?
As far as the article goes, it is correct in that he did claim that “vigorous activity” “cured” his asthma. Is that true? I have no idea, I am not a historian, I just read a biography someone wrote about him once.
As far as what worked, the book claimed that vomiting actually did work, because it “startled” his body out of the asthma attack. Is that true? Also no idea.
I do know that there is such a thing as childhood asthma that people DO grow out of, that happened to my brother. He had it until he was a teen, and then it went away, and he hasn’t had it since. This may have been the case for Teddy Roosevelt as well.
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They would simply die and not pass on those genes. Dear friend from kindergarten went that way. Also, and maybe more important, we have air pollution that was unthinkable 200-years ago.
To top it off, we humans were generally in better shape, and non-fat. I was having pretty bad lung problems, on the edge of full blown illness, when I started working my ass off outdoors at Lowe’s. Within 2-weeks my lungs were straight again. That work also cured a few other ailments. OTOH, had to quit as I was getting my ass beat.
Getting my ass beat
U gonnna have to elaborate on that
I think they just mean they weren’t very good at it
