![]() ![]() Kellogg was largely responsible for the eventual acceptance of rational hydrotherapy and electrotherapeutics in conventional physiatrics.(2) Meanwhile, empirical water cure experienced a resurgence in the 1890s due to the influence of the German priest, Fr. He practiced and taught "biological living" in his books, the Seventh Day Adventist magazine Health Reformer, and in his sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan. The momentum of the hydropathic and hygienic movements dissipated with Trall's death in 1877.(1,2) John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) had been a student of Trall's who afterwards pursued a conventional medical education. The Water Cure Journal, established in 1846 by Shew, was renamed the Herald of Health by Trail in 1863. Trail incorporated popular health reform ideas such as temperance, vegetarianism, and avoidance of drugs from such promoters as Sylvester Graham, Samuel Thomson, and others. Hydropathy evolved into hygeiotherapy when Dr. Russel Trall, Mary Gove and her husband Dr. Its major practitioners and teachers included Dr. The American hydropathic movement of using water in the treatment of disease was centered in New York in the mid-19th century. The combination of water cure and other natural methods was not unfamiliar in America. ![]() ![]() The introduction of naturopathy into America was a development of the German nature cure in a new land where it succeeded similar hygienic and herbal systems. FROM HYGIENICS AND PHYSIOMEDICALISM TO NATUROPATHY ![]()
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