John Harvey Kellogg's Sanitarium

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Note my first word: “If”

@Sean - I know, just pulling your chain. I deleted the post

If the real John Harvey Kellogg's place was anything like the depiction in The Road to Wellville I would love to have gone there and be ministered to by Nurse Graves:

if Nurse Graves were a male nurse i would volunteer for additional procedures to be done to me

Website recognition of JHK's research practices

www.traditionalhydrotherapy.com

By chance I'd looked up the correct term for Sanitorium & found that Sanitarium were interchangeable. .being one and the same by description.

Sanitoriums came into being primarily to treat leukaemia patients, This medical term later became Sanitarium which treated a range of illnesses by way of health retreats.

Always remember anyone can make a website, there is no guarantee of accuracy of information anymore. Reader beware.

I also note that they are remarkably general in their definition of hydrotherapy. Everything from the works (washing wounds) to the no proof whatsoever. Possibly intentional so they can say “some of it works” or similar.

TB was another disease done by early sanitariums. A popular treatment was putting the patients outdoors. Guess that beats collapsing a lung, which was something else they did. One of the reasons to be very happy for scientific medicine and antibiotics.

If a reality I'd never do it but for play scenes would be interesting fantasy.

Perhaps going back in time and taken to Kelloggs Sanitarium by a prudish Victorian parent for treatment for self harm (masterbation). He had a particular recomendation for girls with this habit that could be recreated with the good dr applying some irritant to my delicate places.

Pure fantasy play

If I had to guess, John Harvey Kellogg's “successes” in treating lazy, probably fat and overindulgent, upper class clients was largely due to making them diet and exercise. Their bodies largely healed themselves. The group exercises, massage therapy, enemas and other water ‘cures’, etc., were largely to keep them busy and away from the bar and buffet.

The same likely applies today.

YMMV.