John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan, was a late 19th and early 20th century physician, author and lecturer who waged a life-long crusade to rid the world of the twin evils of excessive sex and unhealthy colons. He was author of the bestselling book Plain Facts for Young and Old, one of the first "Sex Manuals," which explored, among other subjects, the clear link between masturbation, cancer and madness, the preparation of simple, healthful meals designed to diminish the sexual urges, and the benefits of yogurt, both as food and in enemas.
Dr. Kellogg is viewed by many modern scholars, as he was by some of his contemporaries, as a hopeless fruitbat. While it’s true he may have advocated racial Eugenics, electric baths and circumcision without anesthetics ("as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind"), he was also a practical (not radical) vegetarian and a champion of the poor. And he lived to the age of NINETY-ONE—at a time when average American male life expectancy was 49.7.
No hypocrite he, the good doctor never consummated his own 40-year marriage to Ella Ervita Eaton Kellogg. In partnership with the uncomplaining Mrs. K., he raised 40 adopted and foster children, but never once hung the “do not disturb” sign from their doorknob.
By the time of the Great War, JHK’s interests had migrated away from “The Silent Killer of the Night” to nutrition, and especially bowel health. In 1917 he published Colon Hygiene, which sought, among other worthy goals, to explode the myth that “as some have written, the colon is a vestigial organ in man that can be safely removed.” Not so, wrote Dr. K.
Glad we cleared THAT up. Now, let us begin with . . .

Fomentation

"The origin of this common technique lies in the word 'foment', which means literally, 'to induce heat.' The word is sometimes used in other senses, as in to 'cause' or to 'promote', as in 'to foment fear,' for example. But in this instance, 'fomentation' involves the application of wet towels that have been heated between 150 and 160 degrees, followed quickly by the macintosh wrap. Ronald will demonstrate. Take a deep breath, Lars. Please stop chuckling, Ronald. This is for my Book."

For those times when the Ordinary Fountain Douche just won't do . . .

And would someone please explain the 'farmer tan' on Lars. Has he been skulling in a union suite, with matching gloves?

Or is his facial hue the result of . . . FOMENTATION?

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