Justin Croft Antiquarian Books : JACKSON, James C[aleb]. - Speech of James C. Jackson, M.D., consulting physician of Our home on the hillside, “The Sanitarium,” Dansville, Living...

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A PSYCHO-HYGENIC SANITORIUM

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.

8vo, pp. 35-60, disbound. Running titles “The Lecturer” throughout. Original printed green wrapper, the lower cover with a view of the Sanitarium, adverts to inner covers.

James Caleb Jackson was a pioneer of alternative medicine in the United States, presiding over a vast hydropathic and “psycho-hygenic” Sanitarium at Danville. 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.

Worldcat lists a single copy of the offprint (New York Historical Society).

£200.00 (equal to approx. US$316.70* or €247.34* for 22 May 2012)

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