DeForest C. Jarvis, M.D. (1881-1966) folk remedy papers, 1956.

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DeForest C. Jarvis, M.D. (1881-1966) folk remedy papers, 1956.

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This collection consists primarily of 21 letters Dr. Jarvis wrote to Fred Healy from the period around March to October, 1956. The letters, which read much like essays, are prescriptive and didactic in nature and lack personal content. Some of Jarvis' ideas were ahead of their time, anticipating the popularity of "alternative" therapies. The letters include such topics as the importance of adhering to one's own "racial" diet, the medicinal value of honey and vinegar, using witch-hazel as a cure for diarrhea, the effects of diet in primitive peoples and animals, the use of insulin and iodine in cerebral hemorrhage, using cider vinegar as a cure for milk fever in cows, exploring disease at the cellular level, the effect of chlorine in drinking water, and the reasons to avoid citrus. In one of his letters, Dr. Jarvis describes his personal eating habits - with a surprising fondness for canned goods. The collection also contains a list entitled, "Signs of a Lack of Potassium in the Human Body" and a short treatise that Fred Healy called "Corn - Not Wheat," both written by Dr. Jarvis.

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Healy, J. Alfred, 1883-1977.

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Jarvis, D. C.

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DeForest Clinton Jarvis was born on March 15, 1881, in Plattsburgh, New York. Although born out of state, he claimed to be a fifth generation Vermonter through his mother, Abbie Gena Vincent. After receiving his M.D. from the University of Vermont Medical College in 1904, he specialized in otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) in his Barre, Vermont practice. In 1908, he married Pearl Maeferd Macomber, born in Iowa but with Vermont roots. Their only child, Sylvia Abbie Jarvis, was bo...