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Mar 6, 2020 · Together, though, they turned Battle Creek into a destination for health seekers from around the world. Before it was “Cereal City,” the small town became known as “Little Chicago” as thousands flooded in, looking for the Battle Creek Cure.
- Chewing, Chewing…And More Chewing
- Electric Light Baths
- Sinusoidal Current
- The Continuous Tub Bath
- Fifteen-Quart Enemas
- The Vibrating Chair
- Masturbation Cures
Kellogg was a disciple of Horace Fletcher, a dubious health expert who advised people to chew each bite of food at least 40 times before swallowing. Kellogg often led diners at his sanitarium in a rousing rendition of the “Chewing Song,” according to medical historian Howard Markel, in his 2017 book The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Cre...
Like other physicians of his day, Kellogg experimented with the therapeutic effects of artificial light. Some of that work, such as using light to treat depression, became an accepted practice. Kellogg, however, promoted light therapy as an almost universal cure-all and built what he called the world’s first “electric light bath”—basically a wooden...
Kellogg’s interest in the therapeutic powers of electricity didn’t end with light baths. With a device he cobbled together from telephone parts, he began to administer mild doses of electrical current directly to his patients’ skin. Kellogg claimed these “sinusoidal current” treatments were painless and wrote that he’d tested them in “many thousand...
In a 1907 ad in Good Housekeepingmagazine, the Battle Creek Sanitarium boasted of offering 46 different kinds of baths. Some, like foot baths and sponge baths, were relatively conventional. But there were also options like the “continuous bath,” which was much like a regular tub bath, except that it could last, Kellogg wrote, “for many hours, days,...
As if the bath-crazed sanitarium’s water bills weren’t already high enough, Kellogg’s patients were constantly taking enemas to cleanse their colons. “More people need washing out than any other remedy,” he wrote. But Kellogg went beyond typical enemas, which might involve a pint or two of liquid; his were administered by special machines that, acc...
Kelloggdevised countlesscontraptions for exercise and other purposes. President Calvin Coolidge had one of the doctor’s mechanical horses in the White House, and by some accounts, there was another in the Titanic’s first-class gym. But Kellogg also had his mechanical misfires, one of which was the vibrating chair. Unlike today’s well-padded vibrati...
A zealous lifelong foe of what he called “the solitary vice” and the “vile practice,” Kellogg wrote that masturbation led to poor digestion, memory loss, impaired vision, heart disease, epilepsy and insanity—to name just a few insidious side effects. To break young boys of the habit, Kellogg suggested procedures that ranged from ridiculous to barba...
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The ready-to-eat breakfast cereal industry, which made Battle Creek famous as both the “Health City” and the “Cereal City” in the early 20th century, was the direct result of these first experiments in the San kitchen.
Jul 6, 2018 · Now, the Whites founded what became the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which was a world-famous medical spa, grand hotel and medical center, but they called it the Western Health Reform Institute.
Known in different eras of its history as the Queen City, Health City, and the International City, today Battle Creek is Cereal City, the “best-known city of its size in the country.” The village of Battle Creek began as a market and mill center for prairie farmers.
The Creek Indians are more properly called the Muscogee, alternatively spelled Mvskoke. Creek oral tradition, recorded in the eighteenth century, told a legend of migration of one group of ancestral Creeks who established a colony at the Ocmulgee site near present Macon, Georgia.
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Battle Creek’s reputation as a “health city” was furthered in 1930 when the W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established to improve the well-being of children. The city is the site of Kellogg Community College (1956), a branch of Davenport University (1990), Leila Arboretum, Kingman Museum of Natural History, and Pinder Park Zoo.
