<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:14 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Note that Kellogg began medical practice as a teenager (the proto-Doogie Houser MD) in the 1860s, even before attending medical school, which was then a 4 month course of questionable value. We need to judge him and his work by the standards of his times rather than ours.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### He also contributed to the colon-cleansing craze.</div><div><br></div><div>All this goes to show that good intentions (which he probably had) don't mean much when technical knowledge and experimental rigor is lacking.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal </div></div>
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