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American physician
Martin Luther Holbrook
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Born
| February 3, 1831
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Died
| August 12, 1902 (aged 71)
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Occupation(s)
| Physician, writer
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Martin Luther Holbrook
(February 3, 1831 - August 12, 1902) was an American
physician
and
vegetarianism
activist associated with the
natural hygiene
and
physical culture
movements.
Biography
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edit
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Holbrook was born in
Mantua Township, Portage County, Ohio
.
[1]
Holbrook graduated from
Ohio Agricultural College
and edited the
Ohio Farmer
(1859-1861).
[2]
During 1861?1863, Holbrook worked with
Dio Lewis
in
Boston
to promote physical culture and hygiene.
[1]
He graduated from Lewis's Normal School of Physical Culture.
[2]
He moved to
New York City
and obtained his medical degree from the
Hygeio-Therapeutic College
in 1864.
[3]
Holbrook was coproprietor of the New Hygienic Institute at Laight Street in New York City, the property was previously
Russell Trall
's water-cure institution.
[4]
[5]
A
Turkish bath
was located at the institute.
[1]
[4]
[6]
He was a founder of Miller, Wood and Holbrook firm and Miller, Wood & Co publishers of medical books. He later published under his own name, M. L. Holbrook and was an important publisher of medical and hygienic literature up until the 1890s.
[2]
[7]
The printing press was located at Laight Street in New York City.
[7]
It shared the same address as Russell Trall's
New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College
.
[7]
Holbrook was a vegetarian and promoted abstinence from
alcohol
,
coffee
,
meat
,
tea
, and
tobacco
.
[2]
[8]
He translated the German raw food book
Fruit and Bread
by
Gustav Schlickeysen
. The book promoted a fruitarian diet of uncooked fruits, grains and nuts.
[8]
Holbrook was an advocate of
chastity
. His 1894 book on the subject recommended a
physical culture
regimen to increase the body's strength and
diminish "morbid craving for unnatural and unreasonable indulgence of the passional nature."
[2]
He was a prominent
eugenicist
and authored the 1897 book
Stirpiculture
, later re-printed as
Homo-Culture
.
Holbrook's
Eating for Strength
, published in 1888 contains several hundred vegetarian recipes.
[9]
The Herald of Health
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From 1866, Holbrook was a long-term editor for
Russell Trall
's
The Herald of Health
(it became the
Journal of Hygiene
in 1893).
[2]
[7]
He edited the journal until 1898.
[1]
It was a very popular journal.
[10]
In 1898, the journal was renamed
Omega
and was edited by Holbrook and
Charles Alfred Tyrrell
.
[11]
It merged with
Physical Culture
.
[5]
Selected publications
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Holbrook's publications can be found in the
New York Public Library
.
[12]
References
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d
Anonymous. (1902).
Dr. Martin Luther Holbrook
.
The Publishers' Weekly
62 (1594): 249-250.
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a
b
c
d
e
f
Hoolihan, Christopher. (2001).
An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform, Volume 1
. University of Rochester Press. p. 460-465.
ISBN
1-58046-098-4
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Anonymous. (1902).
Obituary Notes
.
Medical Record
62 (8): 301.
- ^
a
b
Weiss, Harry Bischoff; Kemble, Howard R. (1967).
The Great American Water-Cure Craze: A History of Hydropathy in the United States
. The Past Times Press. p. 83
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a
b
Whorton, James C. (2016 edition).
Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers
. Princeton University Press. pp. 139-140.
ISBN
978-0691641898
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"The first Turkish baths in the USA: New York: Manhattan: Laight Street"
. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
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a
b
c
d
Brodie, Janet Farrell. (1994).
Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century America
. Cornell University Press. p. 338.
ISBN
0-8014-8433-2
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a
b
Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael. (2004).
Vegetarian America: A History
. Praeger Publishing. p. 119.
ISBN
978-0275975197
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"Eating for Strength; or, Food and Diet in Their Relation to Health and Work"
.
JAMA
.
14
(3): 107?108. 1890.
doi
:
10.1001/jama.1890.02410030035012
.
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Anonymous. (1876).
The Herald of Health
.
Am J Dent Sci
9 (9): 432.
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Todd, Jan; Roark, Joe; Todd, Terry. (1991).
A Briefly Annotated bibliography of English Language Serial Publications in the Field of Physical Culture
.
Iron Game History
1 (4-5): 25-40.
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Lord, Andrew Roberts. (1942).
Holbrook and Allied Families
. New York: Thesis Publishing Company. p. 58
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Newcomb McGee, Anita. (1898). "Reviewed Work: Stirpiculture; Or the Improvement of Offspring Through Wiser Generation by M. L. Holbrook".
American Anthropologist
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11
(1): 24.
JSTOR
658607
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