Asthma and athletics

Experiencing attacks during his London years in Parliament, he again sought an active country life.E5 Robert Bree, MD (1759-1839), was a British physician and author of 5 editions of a treatise on asthma translated into foreign languages, whose concept of asthmatic pathogenesis defined inflammatory bronchial reactivity.E6 Increasingly troubled by asthma, he interrupted his London practice for a military post that enabled him to exercise at seaside.E7 William IV (1767-1837), King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover, 1830-1837, included daily 4-hour walks in his asthma treatment program.E8 René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781-1826) was a French professor and chairman of medicine at Hôpital Charité, Paris, and Collegè de France, who designed and introduced the first stethoscopeE9 and is considered the father of the specialty of chest diseases. Overcoming exercise-induced bronchospasm in swimming was facilitated by environmental optimal temperature and humidity of inspired air at respiratory tract mucosal membranes.10 References Cardano J. Ephemeris or rule of life for the Most Reverend Archbishop of Saint Andrew's DD, John Hamilton in Dana CL: the story of a great consultation: