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Kellogg, J. H : The Stomach: Its Disorders, and How to Cure Them

Modern Medicine Pub. Co., Battle Creek, MI, 1896

Original publisher's green cloth binding with silver-foil lettering on front cover and red lettering on front cover and spine. 5 3/4" x 8." 368 pages, complete. Forty-four black-and-white illustrations and eleven plates (two in color, including the frontispiece, and nine in black-and-white), complete. Fourteen additional pages of advertisements in the back with black-and-white illustrations. List of Illustrations and List of Plates in front. Index in back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Pages are age-toned. The last few pages have faint, almost imperceptible dampstaining mostly limited to the margins in the upper fore-edge and corner of the top edge. Covers have a few small marks and a few spots of rubbing. A Fine copy. A book about the stomach, its ailments, and how to treat them according to nineteenth-century science. Also includes a host of other health-related topics such as Kellogg's discussions on the digestive system (beginning with the mouth), healthful dress (a brief section shows and discusses the consequences of wearing corsets or constrictive clothing), bathing methods and hydrotherapy, which foods and drinks to consume and which ones to avoid, bacteria and the microbiome, exercise regimens to facilitate digestion, dyspepsia (indigestion), and the dangers of quackery and patent medicines. The chapters: "The Stomach: Its Disorders and How to Cure Them," "The Organs of Digestion," "Foods," "The Digestive Fluids," "General View of the Digestive Process," "The Maladies of the Modern Stomach," "Important New Discoveries Relating to Digestion," "Symptoms of Dyspepsia," "The Symptomatic Treatment of Indigestion," "Treatment of Dyspepsia," "Remedies for the Home Treatment of Dyspepsia," "Quacks and Nostrums," and "Graphic Method." Examples of products advertised in back: "The Perfection Vaporizer," charts of the human figure, "Granose" cereal, "Antiseptic Charcoal Tablets," "Nut Meal," "Nut Butter," "Almond Meal," "Malted Gluten," "Bromose" (food made of cereals and nuts), "Sanitarium Medical Battery," "Combination Water Bottle and Fountain Syringe," "Ear Douche," "Spine Bags," "Vulcanized Rubber Ice Bags," "The Natural Abdominal Supporter," "Muscle Beaters," "Umbilical Belts," "Air Pillows," "Invalid Air Cushions," "Exhalation Tube for Lung Development," "Perfection Douche Apparatus," and "Rectal Irrigator." Authored by the famous American doctor, nutritionist, health activist, and businessman, John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943). He directed the Battle Creek Sanitarium from 1876-1943 which administered Seventh-day Adventist and "clean living" diets and health regimens to patients. Kellogg, his wife Ella, his brother Will, and other members of the Kellogg family invented their signature flaked cereals which are still popular to this day under the Kellogg's brand.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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