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Martin Luther Holbrook
BornFebruary 3, 1831
Mantua Township, Portage County, Ohio
DiedAugust 12, 1902 (aged 71)
New York City
Occupation(s)Physician, writer

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

Holbrook was born in

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

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

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

Holbrook's publications can be found in the New York Public Library.[12]

References

  1. ^
    The Publishers' Weekly
    62 (1594): 249-250.
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-58046-098-4
  3. ^ Anonymous. (1902). Obituary Notes. Medical Record 62 (8): 301.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0691641898
  6. ^ "The first Turkish baths in the USA: New York: Manhattan: Laight Street". Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  7. ^
    ISBN 0-8014-8433-2
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-0275975197
  9. doi:10.1001/jama.1890.02410030035012
    .
  10. ^ Anonymous. (1876). The Herald of Health. Am J Dent Sci 9 (9): 432.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Lord, Andrew Roberts. (1942). Holbrook and Allied Families. New York: Thesis Publishing Company. p. 58
  13. JSTOR 658607
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