Natural Hygiene: The Pristine Way of Life (Paperback)

by Herbert M. Shelton (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: American Natural Hygiene Society, Incorporate (June 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914532375
• ISBN-13: 978-0914532378
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,263,094 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Reprint of a Classic book on Hygiene for Health, August 3, 2008

By	BYF "Backyard Flix" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

From Introduction

"Early in the 1800s, Isaac Jennings, M.D., quietly started a revolution in health care when he began to notice that simple measures - such as eating a healthy diet, breathing plenty of fresh air, drinking pure water, exposing the skin to sun shine, partaking of exercise, and balancing that exercise with plenty of sleep and rest - produced much better health results than the pills, potions and poisons he was taught to use in his medical practice.
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...in 1852, the first professional school of Hygiene was created to teach these methods to medical doctors. Hygiene flourished from this time until the end of the century. [This book] describes this history.

In 1909 the Carnegie Foundation sponsored the Flexner Report. ...among other things [the report] said there were 'too many' doctors in the U.S. This and other 'unbiased' observations led eventually to the closing down of Hygienic teaching institutions, as well as most of the medical colleges for women and for black, leaving only the allopathic medical schools to train licensed medical doctors. As a result, Hygiene began to fade.

In the late 1920s, Herbert M. Shelton, N.D., D.C., Ph.D., rediscovered Hygiene, largely through his work with the famous health reformer Bernarr MacFadden. Dr. Shelton worked tirelessly on behalf of Hygiene, which he called 'Natural Hygiene' to distinguishe from other, less accurate, uses of the term. He wrote more than 35 books, published a monthly journal for 40 years, and, throughout most of his life, operated a clinic which he called a health school, because it was a place where people learned how to build health.

In 1948, Shelton and some fellow doctors helped found the American Natural Hygiene Society. Through the educational efforts of these doctors...the Society helped rekindle the Hygienic revolution."