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On Asthma: Its Pathology and Treatment

Henry Hyde Salter, subject: Asthma and the importance of exercise, 1860

Henry Hyde Salter's On Asthma supplied a creed of exercise and action that Theodore Roosevelt and his father adopted, and that creed shaped Roosevelt's life.

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About the book

Published in London by John Churchill in 1860, the treatise runs to 372 pages.

Why read it

Best if You want to see the source of the exercise-and-action creed that Theodore Roosevelt and his father adopted, and that shaped Roosevelt's life.

Key themes

  • Guidance that became a creed
  • Adopted by father and son

Evidence and original sources

Source: official Founders episode — #156

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  • Theodore Roosevelt — David says Salter's On Asthma supplied an exercise-and-action creed that Theodore and his father adopted and that shaped Roosevelt's life.