Daniel H. Kress
Daniel Hartman Kress | |
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Born | June 27, 1862 |
Died | November 2, 1956 |
Occupation | Physician |
Spouse | Lauretta E. Kress |
Children | Ora Kress Mason |
Daniel Hartman Kress (June 27, 1862 – November 2, 1956) was a Canadian physician, anti-smoking activist, Seventh-day Adventist missionary and vegetarian.
Career
Kress was born on June 27, 1862, in
He was physician-in-chief of
Kress was the editor of Australasian Good Health and the Life and Health magazine.[3][4] Kress was a member of the American Medical Association.[1] He married Lauretta Eby in 1884, they had several children.[1] Kress died aged 94.[1]
Anti-smoking activism
Kress was vice-president of the
Vegetarianism
Kress was originally a vegan and believed that butter, eggs, meat and milk should be avoided. He argued that plants contained "all the elements needed for the human body".[2] Kress visited New Zealand in 1901. He worked at the Christchurch Medical and Surgical Sanitarium.[2] He lectured at the Christchurch Art Gallery on food reform, condemning alcohol and meat consumption.[2] Kress was a teetotaller who believed that animal flesh "created a craving for alcoholic drink".[2]
Kress suffered from pernicious anemia and was expected to die in 1901.
Kress opposed the consumption of mustard, peppers, pickles and spices as they created a thirst for alcohol and were "not designed to be fed into the human body".[2] In 1909, Kress and his wife authored the Good Health Cookery Book which contains meatless recipes based around cereals, fruits and vegetables. The Kresses advised two meals a day and suggested nutmeat or protose (a mixture of nuts and gluten) as substitutes for meat.[2]
Selected publications
- Diet and Morals (1899)
- Cancer: Its Cause and Rational Treatment (Life and Health: The National Health Magazine, 1909)
- Good Health Cookery Book (1909, with Lauretta Eby Kress)
- May We Abandon Meat (Good Health, 1912)
- A Narcotized World (1917)
- Cancer, the Modern: Plague of Civilized Lands (The Medical Evangelist, 1922)
- The Cigarette as a Physician Sees It (1931)
- The Modern Use of Tobacco (1940)
- Under the Guiding Hand: Life Experiences of the Doctors Kress (1941, with Lauretta Eby Kress)
See also
- Ovo-lacto vegetarianism
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Kress, Daniel Hartman". In American Men of Medicine. Institute for Research in Biography, 1952. p. 573
- ^ ISBN 978-0-473-27440-5.
- ^ "Editorial". The Medical Missionary. 12 (1): 19. 1903.
- ISBN 978-1-84511-379-7
- JSTOR 3406369.
- ^ Dillow, Gordon L. (1981). Thank You For Not Smoking. American Heritage. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ISBN 0-275-97932-6
- ^ The Health Consequences of Smoking. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1992. p. 30
- ^ ISBN 978-0828025041
- ^ Peden, Pearle. (1968). Hand in Hand: A Biography of Doctors Daniel and Lauretta Kress Southern Publishing Association. p. 160