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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Kellogg and Moral Medicine (was: circumcision)
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 14:58:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec7.232642.24175@sequent.com> <17794@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec14.190306.9310@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec14.190306.9310@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes:
- >I'd like to use this to segue into a question I've been meaning to
- >ask. In the late 1800s to early 1900s there were quite a few books
- >of "medicine for the common man", but which really seemed to be a
- >quack justification of somebody's morality. Probably the best known
- >was written by Dr. Kellogg (of Corn Flakes fame). My question is,
- >to what extent was any of this accepted by the medical community?
- >And, what kind of reaction was there to it?
-
- I can't really answer this, you need to talk to a medical historian.
- Remember that 100 years ago scientific medicine was in its infancy.
- There were incredibly diverse schools of medicine. Homeopathy,
- for example, in those days was no more quackish than many other
- schools of thought. Medical schools did not all teach the same
- things like they do now. There was only a small nucleus of
- scientific practitioners such as Osler, etc., and medicine was
- still more of an art than a science. So I suspect Kellogg could
- find lots of doctors who agreed with him. Graham was another
- similar type to Kellogg (Graham crackers).
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