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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
In 1876, at age 24, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg became the staff physician
at the Battle Creek Sanitarium (The San), a position he would hold for
62 years. Kellogg was not a true quack. His surgical skill was admired
by the Doctors Mayo. A vegetarian, he advocated low calorie diets and
developed peanut butter, granola, and toasted flakes. He warned that
smoking caused lung cancer decades before this link was studied.
Kellogg was an early advocate of exercise and "biologic living."

Nonetheless, Dr. Kellogg engaged in questionable medical practices. The
San offered hydropathy, electropathy, mechanotherapy and  radium cures.
For a time, Kellogg promoted "Fletcherizing" or chewing food until it
slithered down the throat. He changed his mind about Fletcherizing when
he decided that excessive chewing destroyed the fiber content of the
food. Kellogg opposed sexual activity from masturbation to marital
intercourse. A doctor, he never made love to his wife!

Kellogg 's great obsession was the bowel and elimination. According to
Josh Clark :

bowel. "It was his favorite piece of anatomy," John Deutsch has
written, "his first love." It held him in rapture. Once, when an
Adventist interrogator framed all of his medical questions in terms of
religious beliefs, Kellogg turned on him:

"Is God a man with two arms and legs like me?" he demanded. "Does He
have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels?"

"No," the Adventist answered, deeply offended.
"Well I do," cried Kellogg," and that makes me more wonderful than He
is!"
It was the bowel that got Kellogg's undivided medical attention. Ninety
percent of all illness, he would calmly explain, originated in the
stomach and bowel. "The putrefactive changes which recur in the
undigested residues of flesh foods" were to blame, he explained. Guests
who arrived at Battle Creek soon learned that their once-pristine bowel
was now a sewer of autointoxication, full of poisons like creatin,
skatol and indol.
Kellogg's influence and enthusiasm made the bowel not only an
acceptable subject of polite conversation, but a national obsession.
More and more people became convinced that their bowel must be given an
antiseptic cleansing. Autointoxication begone! The medical wizard of
Battle Creek could provide the answer. The bowel, poisoned by
meat-eating, drinking, smoking and usually anything pleasurable, was
poked, prodded and otherwise assaulted by attendants at the San.
Kellogg made sure that the bowel of each and every patient was plied
with water, from above and below. His favorite device was an enema
machine ("just like one I saw in Germany") that could run fifteen
gallons of water through an unfortunate bowel in a matter of seconds.
Every water enema was followed by a pint of yogurt -- half was eaten,
the other half was administered by enema "thus planting the protective
germs where they are most needed and may render most effective
service." The yogurt served to replace "the intestinal flora" of the
bowel, creating what Kellogg claimed was a squeaky clean intestine.
If a healthy dollop of yogurt was not enough to do the trick, more
drastic steps were necessary. If autointoxication persisted and poisons
remained, the offending stretch of intestine was removed. Kellogg
performed as many as twenty operations a day.
The result, Kellogg claimed, was nothing short of medical revolution.
By pumping yogurt cultures into the rectums of America's well to do,
Kellogg claimed that he had managed to cure "cancer of the stomach,
ulcers, diabetes, schizophrenia, manic depressives, acne, anemia ...
asthenia, migraine and premature old age." There was nothing a clean
bowel couldn't handle.

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TC