AUTHOR - J. H. Kellogg, M.D. 

PUBLICATION YEAR - 1905 

CONTENT NOTE - Moral and hygienic guide to male development, emphasizing diet, chastity, and physical health. 

PUBLISHER - The Modern Medicine Pub. Co., Ltd. (Battle Creek, Chicago, New York)

9x6x2.5 In.

This book is a major work of late 19th and early 20th-century American health reform literature and social hygiene, written by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943).

As a medical guide for young men, the book covers topics including anatomy, exercise, diet (advocating for vegetarianism), and social ethics, with a central emphasis on chastity, continence, and the physical dangers of "sexual sins," tobacco, and alcohol. This work perfectly encapsulates the strict moral and medical philosophy of the Seventh-day Adventist health movement (which founded the Battle Creek Sanitarium). The volume is typically illustrated with anatomical plates (often containing fold-outs) and diagrams of physical culture exercises.

Non-exportable

Provenance: The Estate of Mangaldas Nathubhai