Colon Hygiene
book · 1916
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SUMMARY
Kellogg's manual on the management of the colon, the operational companion to his autointoxication theory. It sets out the Battle Creek program for securing frequent bowel evacuation and a 'non-putrefactive' intestinal flora through diet (a high-residue vegetarian regimen), bowel training, and adjunctive measures. Used in this case as the primary source for the colon-hygiene component of biologic living: the practical claim that keeping the bowel cleared and its flora altered prevents the absorption of intestinal poisons. Cited for the content of Kellogg's prescriptions, not as evidence that the regimen extended life. Held by the Internet Archive (identifier colonhygiene00kell), digitized from a Library of Congress copy.
NOTES
Colon Hygiene (Battle Creek, Mich.: Good Health Publishing Co., 1916) is the practical counterpart to Kellogg’s Autointoxication. Where the latter argues the theory, this volume prescribes the regimen: the diet, bowel habits, and clinic measures by which the Battle Creek Sanitarium proposed to keep the colon cleared of putrefying residues and to shift its bacterial population toward a ‘non-putrefactive’ state. The book is the source used here for the bowel-regularity and colon-hygiene claims of the case. The Internet Archive copy (identifier colonhygiene00kell) was digitized from a Library of Congress holding in the Americana collection. No DOI or PMID applies; the source is cited by its archive record and catalog metadata.