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John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American businessman, inventor, physician, [1] and advocate of the Progressive Movement. [2] . He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
But some might say that the biggest flake to come out of Battle Creek was the man in charge: John Harvey Kellogg, the dapper doctor who typically dressed in a white suit and white shoes,...
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg held some horrific ideas about race — and believed that a bland diet could prevent masturbation in children.
This was Dr John Harvey Kellogg’s Sanitarium of biologic living. The thickly moustachioed man whose name is still synonymous with cornflakes began life in a family of early adopters of Michigan’s Seventh-Day Adventism, making him the natural heir to the health empire being built by the church.
In addition to a bland diet, Kellogg was determined to deter masturbation using inhumane and harmful methods. In the event that someone could not stop masturbating, he would recommend circumcision without anaesthetic for boys or the application of carbolic acid to the clitoris for girls. W.K. Kellogg brought breakfast cereal to the masses
Masturbation was a particular fixation of Kellogg‘s – he wrote entire books on the dangers of "self-abuse" and even advocated circumcision and the application of carbolic acid to the clitoris as preventative measures.
John Harvey Kellogg, an American doctor and nutritionist known for his cornflake brand, staunchly believed in circumcision for this very reason.
John Kellogg was more than the creator of Corn Flakes. The doctor was also keen on enemas, genital mutilation and eugenics, all supported by his mad science.
John Harvey Kellogg—surgeon, health reformer, and inventor of cornflakes—developed a transatlantic network of health reformers, medical practitioners, and scientists to improve his own reforms and establish new ones.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. In 1876, at age 24, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg became the staff physician at the Battle Creek Sanitarium (The San), a position he would hold for 62 years. Kellogg was not a true quack.