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JACKSON, James C[aleb]. ~ Speech of James C. Jackson, M.D., consulting physician of Our home on the hillside, “The Sanitarium,” Dansville, Livingston County, N.Y., delivered in Liberty Hall, at 10 o’clock A.M., March 28th, 1881, the day he was seventy years old. Dansville, N.Y.: E.R. Andrews for the Office of the Laws of Life, 1883.
James Caleb Jackson was a pioneer of alternative medicine in the United States, presiding over a vast hydropathic and “psycho-hygenic” Sanitarium at Danville.
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He promoted a vegetarian diet, abstinence from tobacco, tea, coffee and alcohol and is best known as the orginator of the first breakfast cereal, which he named Granula. This pamphlet, probably a separately issued offprint from a Danville journal entitled “The Lecturer” is a retrospective view of his philosophy and his achievements at Danville.
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