Maximilian Bircher-Benner
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Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, M.D. was a Swiss physician and a pioneer nutritionist credited for popularizing muesli and raw food vegetarianism.
Maximilian Bircher Benner
John Harvey Kellogg
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John Harvey Kellogg was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the health reforms advocated by the Battle Creek Progressive Friends movement and the eugenics policies espoused b
Maximilian Bircher-Benner
…being treated. Bircher-Benner also recommended his patients to sunbathe, take cold showers and use a medicinal bath developed by American physician John Harvey Kellogg. His theory of life was based on harmony between people and nature, a key component of a German lifestyle reform movement, and the reason he named his…
Kellogg, c. 1915
Kellogg in 1881, aged about 29
Battle Creek Medical Surgical Sanitarium before 1902
Breathing exercises at Battle Creek Sanitarium (c. 1900)