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{{short description|American physician, inventor, and businessman (1852–1943)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = John Harvey Kellogg
| image              = Portrait of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.jpg
| caption            = Kellogg circa 1915
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1852|2|26|mf=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Tyrone Township, Livingston County, Michigan|Tyrone, Michigan]], US
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1943|12|14|1852|2|26|mf=y}}
| death_place        = [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], US
| occupation         = Physician, [[nutritionist]]
| known_for          = {{ubl|[[Corn flakes]]|[[Battle Creek Sanitarium]]}}
| relatives          = [[Will Keith Kellogg]] (brother)
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Ella Eaton Kellogg|Ella Ervilla Eaton]]|February 22, 1879|June 14, 1920|end=d.}}
| children           = {{abbr|8|all adopted}}
| alma_mater         = {{ubl|[[Eastern Michigan University|Michigan State Normal School]]|[[New York Hydropathic and Physiological School|Hygeio-Therapeutic College]]|[[University of Michigan Medical School]]|[[Bellevue Hospital|Bellevue Hospital Medical College]] (MD)}}
}}
{{Seventh-day Adventism}}
'''John Harvey Kellogg''' (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American [[Physician|medical doctor]], nutritionist, inventor, health activist, [[Eugenics|eugenicist]], and businessman. He was the director of the [[Battle Creek Sanitarium]] in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]]. The sanitarium was founded by members of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-Day Adventist Church]]. It combined aspects of a European spa, a [[hydrotherapy]] institution, a hospital and high-class hotel. Kellogg treated the rich and famous, as well as the poor who could not afford other hospitals. Several [[List of common misconceptions|popular misconceptions]] falsely attribute various cultural practices, inventions, and historical events to Kellogg.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last1=McElroy |first1=Sydnee |title=The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine |last2=McElroy |first2=Justin |publisher=Weldon Owen Publishing |year=2020 |isbn=9781681886510 |pages=211 |quote=}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=MacGuill |first=Dan |date=August 16, 2019 |title=Were Kellogg's Corn Flakes Created as an 'Anti-Masturbatory Morning Meal'? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kelloggs-corn-flakes-masturbation/ |access-date=July 3, 2022 |website=[[Snopes]] |quote=According to Howard Markel, a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Michigan and author of a book on the Kellogg family, the initial impetus for the invention of corn flakes came from the need to create a breakfast food that countered indigestion, a common health complaint in later-19th-century America...}}</ref>

Theologically, his views went against many of the traditional tenets of [[Nicene Creed|Nicene Christianity]]. As [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-Day Adventist Church]] beliefs shifted towards [[Trinity|orthodox Trinitarianism]] during the 1890s, Adventists within the denominations were "unable to accommodate the essentially [[Liberal Christianity|liberal]] understanding of Christianity" exhibited by Kellogg, viewing his [[theology]] as [[Pantheism|pantheistic]] and unorthodox.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Höschele |first=Stefan |title=Adventist Interchurch Relations: A Study in Ecumenics |publisher=[[Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht]] |year=2022 |isbn=9783847014638 |pages=229}}</ref> Disagreements with other members of the church led to a major schism within the denomination: he was disfellowshipped in 1907, but continued to follow many Adventist beliefs and directed the sanitarium until his death in 1943. Kellogg also helped to establish the [[American Medical Missionary College]] in 1895.<ref>{{Cite web|title=True When Tried|url=https://www.adventistreview.org/true-when-tried|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.adventistreview.org|date=October 16, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> The college operated independently until 1910, when it merged with [[Illinois State University]].

Kellogg was a major leader in progressive health reform, particularly in the second phase of the [[clean living movement]].<ref name="Engs">{{cite book|last1=Engs|first1=Ruth Clifford|title=The progressive era's health reform movement|date=2003|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, CT|isbn=978-0275979324|pages=192–195|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mNeGQRBgd_MC&pg=PA192|access-date=August 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Anderson">{{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1=Heather Arndt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5LghYCqDJw8C&pg=PA21|title=Breakfast: a history|date=2013|publisher=AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.|isbn=9780759121652|location=Lanham}}</ref> He wrote extensively on science and health. His approach to "biologic living" combined scientific knowledge with Adventist beliefs, promoting health reform, and [[Temperance (virtue)|temperance]]. His promotion of developing [[anaphrodisiac]] foods was based on these beliefs.<ref name="leeterry">{{cite journal |last=Lee |first=Terry |title=Virtual violence in Fight Club: This is what transformation of masculine ego feels like |journal=Journal of American & Comparative Cultures |volume=25 |issue=3–4 |date=September 2002 |pages=418–423 |doi=10.1111/1542-734X.00059}}</ref> Many of the [[vegetarian]] foods that Kellogg developed and offered his patients were publicly marketed: Kellogg's brother, [[Will Keith Kellogg]], is best known today for the invention of the [[breakfast cereal]] [[corn flakes]].<ref name="obit" /><ref name="Distillations">{{cite journal|last1=Mohaupt |first1=Hillary |title=A Recipe for Good Health |journal=Distillations |year=2017|volume=3|issue=1 |pages=12–15 |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/a-recipe-for-good-health|access-date=March 20, 2018}}</ref> This creation of the modern breakfast cereal changed "the American breakfast landscape forever."<ref name="Anderson" />

As an early proponent of the [[germ theory of disease]], Kellogg was well ahead of his time in relating [[Gut flora|intestinal flora]] and the presence of bacteria in the intestines to health and disease. The sanitarium approached treatment in a [[holistic medicine|holistic]] manner, actively promoting vegetarianism, nutrition, the use of [[enema]]s to clear "intestinal flora", exercise, sun-bathing, and [[hydrotherapy]], as well as the abstention from smoking tobacco, drinking alcoholic beverages, and sexual activity.

Kellogg dedicated the last 30 years of his life to promoting eugenics. He co-founded the [[Race Betterment Foundation]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kellogg, John Harvey|url=http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/connections/512fa0d334c5399e2c000005|access-date=2021-03-04|website=The Eugenics Archives|language=en}}</ref> co-organized several National Conferences on Race Betterment and attempted to create a 'eugenics registry'. Alongside discouraging 'racial mixing', Kellogg was in favor of sterilizing 'mentally defective persons', promoting a eugenics agenda while working on the Michigan Board of Health<ref>{{Cite web|title=MDHHS - Michigan Department of Health and Human Services|url=https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.michigan.gov}}</ref> and helping to enact authorization to sterilize those deemed 'mentally defective' into state laws during his tenure.<ref name="Eugenics">{{cite news | last1=Buckley |first1=Nick | title=How John Harvey Kellogg was Wrong on Race | url=https://eu.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2019/03/21/john-harvey-kellogg-battle-creek-michigan-eugenics-race-nazis/3202628002/ |access-date=16 June 2020 | work=Battlecreek Enquirer | date=9 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Eugenics 2">{{citation | last1=Leung |first1=Colette | title=Kellogg, John Harvey | url= http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/connections/512fa0d334c5399e2c000005#:~:text=John%20Harvey%20Kellogg%20(1852%2D1943,younger%20brother%20Will%20Keith%20Kellogg.&text=Kellogg%20was%20also%20a%20noted,would%20help%20save%20the%20race. |access-date=16 June 2020 | work=Eugenics Archives }}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:John Harvey Kellogg - aged about 29 - Project Gutenberg eText 19924.jpg|thumb|Kellogg in 1881, aged about 29]]

John Harvey Kellogg was born in [[Tyrone Township, Livingston County, Michigan|Tyrone, Michigan]], on February 26, 1852,<ref>While ''The New York Times'' obituary for Kellogg [https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0226.html] gives his place of birth as [[Tyrone, New York]], other reliable sources, including the Battle Creek Historical Society [https://web.archive.org/web/19991007082046/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9840/kellogg.html] and the [[:File:1850 census Kellogg.jpg|1850 US Census]] indicate that he was born in [[Tyrone Township, Livingston County, Michigan]].</ref> to John Preston Kellogg (1806–1881) and his second wife Ann Janette Stanley (1824–1893).<ref name=obit/> His father, John Preston Kellogg, was born in [[Hadley, Massachusetts]]; his ancestry can be traced back to the founding of Hadley, Massachusetts, where a great-grandfather operated a ferry.<ref name="Judd">{{cite book|last1=Judd|first1=Sylvester|last2=Boltwood|first2=Lucius Manlius|title=History of Hadley : including the early history of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts|date=1905|publisher=H.R. Huntting & Company|location=Springfield, Mass.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gb1q3RY7ns5-8C/page/n52 46]–48|url=https://archive.org/details/gb1q3RY7ns5-8C|access-date=July 31, 2017}}</ref> 
John Preston Kellogg and his family moved to Michigan in 1834, and after his first wife's death and his remarriage in 1842, to a farm in Tyrone Township.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|9}}<ref name="Schwarz">{{cite book | last = Schwarz | first = Richard William | title = John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.: Pioneering Health Reformer | publisher = Southern Publishing Association | date = 1970 | location = Nashville, Tennessee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UuBq4I-9BQC&pg=PA14| pages = 14–18| isbn = 9780828019392 }}</ref>{{rp|14–18}}
In addition to six children from his first marriage, John Preston Kellogg had 11 children with his second wife Ann, including John Harvey and his younger brother, [[Will Keith Kellogg]].<ref name="Mattern">{{cite book|last1=Mattern|first1=Joanne|title=The Kellogg family : breakfast cereal pioneers|date=2011|publisher=ABDO Pub. Co.|location=Edina, Minn.|isbn=9781616135584|page=4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suTPBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|access-date=July 31, 2017}}</ref>

John Preston Kellogg became a member of several [[Revivalist (person)|revivalist]] movements, including the [[Baptists]], the [[Congregationalist Church]], and finally the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]].<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|9}} He was one of four adherents who pledged substantial sums to convince Seventh-day Adventists [[Ellen G. White]] and her husband [[James Springer White]] to relocate to [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], with their publishing business, in 1855.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|10}} In 1856, the Kellogg family moved to Battle Creek to be near other members of the denomination. There John Preston Kellogg established a [[broom]] factory.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|9}}

The Kelloggs believed that the [[Second Coming]] of Christ was imminent, and that formal education of their children was therefore unnecessary. Originally a sickly child, John Harvey Kellogg attended Battle Creek public schools only briefly, from ages 9–11. He left school to work sorting brooms in his father's broom factory. Nonetheless, he read voraciously and acquired a broad but largely self-taught education. At age 12, John Harvey Kellogg was offered work by the Whites. He became one of their protégés,<ref name="Colt"/>{{rp|111–112}} rising from errand boy to [[printer's devil]], and eventually doing proofreading and editorial work.<ref name="Andress">{{cite book|last1=Andress|first1=William C.|title=Adventist Heritage of Health, Hope, and Healing|date=2013|publisher=TEACH Services, Inc.|isbn=978-1479602667|page=66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gHIiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA66|access-date=August 1, 2017}}</ref> He helped to set articles for ''Health, or how to live'' and ''The Health Reformer'', becoming familiar with Ellen G. White's theories of health, and beginning to follow recommendations such as a vegetarian diet.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|28}} Ellen White described her husband's relationship with John Harvey Kellogg as closer than that with his own children.<ref name="Colt">{{cite book|last1=Colt|first1=George Howe|title=Brothers: What the Van Goghs, Booths, Marxes, Kelloggs&nbsp;– and Colts&nbsp;– Tell Us About How Siblings Shape Our Lives and History|date=2014|publisher=Scribner|location=New York|isbn=978-1416547785|pages=110–113|edition= Reprint|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oAB_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA112|access-date=August 1, 2017}}</ref>{{rp|111–112}}

[[File:Battle Creek Sanitarium before fire.jpg|thumb|left|[[Battle Creek Sanitarium|Battle Creek Medical Surgical Sanitarium]] before 1902]]

Kellogg hoped to become a teacher, and at age 16 taught a district school in Hastings, Michigan.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|29–30}} By age 20, he had enrolled in a teacher's training course offered by [[Eastern Michigan University|Michigan State Normal School]].<ref name="MSU">{{cite web|title=John Harvey Kellogg Papers 00013|url=http://archives.msu.edu/findaid/013.html|website=Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections|access-date=August 1, 2017}}</ref> The Kelloggs and the Whites, however, convinced him to join his half-brother Merritt, [[Edson White]], [[William C. White]], and Jennie Trembley, as students in a six-month medical course at Russell Trall's [[New York Hydropathic and Physiological School|Hygieo-Therapeutic College]] in [[Florence Township, New Jersey]]. Their goal was to develop a group of trained doctors for the Adventist-inspired Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|30}} Under the Whites' patronage, John Harvey Kellogg went on to attend medical school at the [[University of Michigan]] and the [[Bellevue Hospital|Bellevue Hospital Medical College]] in New York City. He graduated in 1875 with a medical degree.<ref name="MSU"/> In October 1876, Kellogg became director of the Western Health Reform Institute.<ref name="MSU"/> In 1877, he renamed it the [[Battle Creek Sanitarium|Battle Creek Medical Surgical Sanitarium]],<ref name="Distillations"/> cleverly coining the term "sanitarium" to suggest both hospital care and the importance of sanitation and personal health.<ref name="Rubin">{{cite book|last1=Rubin|first1=Nancy|title=American empress : the life and times of Marjorie Merriweather Post|date=2004|publisher=IUniverse|location=Lincoln, Neb.|isbn=978-0595301461|page=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ja3b_V1yVv0C&pg=PA5|access-date=August 4, 2017}}</ref>
Kellogg would lead the institution until his death in 1943.<ref name="Distillations"/>

John Harvey Kellogg married [[Ella Eaton Kellogg|Ella Ervilla Eaton]] (1853–1920) of [[Alfred (town), New York|Alfred Center, New York]], on February 22, 1879. The couple maintained separate bedrooms and did not have any biological children. However, they were foster parents to 42 children, legally [[adopt]]ing 8 of them, before Ella died in 1920.<ref name="Taylor">{{cite book|last1=Taylor|first1=Patricia Ann|title=Arriving in America Destination the South.|date=2014|publisher=Authorhouse|location=Bloomington, IN|isbn=9781491853825|page=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6AnBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|access-date=August 2, 2017}}</ref> The adopted children included Agnes Grace, Elizabeth Ella, Harriett Eleanor, John William, Ivaline Maud, Paul Alfred, Robert Mofatt, and Newell Carey.<ref name="Hopkins">{{cite book|last1=Hopkins|first1=Timothy|title=The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New|date=1903|publisher=Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co.|location=San Francisco, Cal.|isbn=1174370432|pages=[https://archive.org/details/kelloggsinoldwo00hopkgoog/page/n328 1316]–1317|edition= Volume 2|url=https://archive.org/details/kelloggsinoldwo00hopkgoog|access-date=August 2, 2017}}</ref>

In 1937, Kellogg received an honorary degree in Doctor of Public Service from [[Oglethorpe University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Honorary Degrees Awarded by Oglethorpe University |publisher=Oglethorpe University |url=http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/history/honorary_degrees.asp |access-date=March 22, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319104000/http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/history/honorary_degrees.asp |archive-date=March 19, 2015}}</ref>

[[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning historian [[Will Durant]], who had been a vegetarian since the age of 18, called Dr. Kellogg "his old mentor",<ref>''A Dual Autobiography'' by Will and Ariel Durant. (p. 208)</ref> and said that Dr. Kellogg, more than any other person since his high school days, had influenced his life.<ref>''A Dual Autobiography'' by Will and Ariel Durant. (p. 130)</ref>

Kellogg died on December 14, 1943, in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]].<ref name="obit">{{cite news|date=December 16, 1943|title=J. H. Kellogg Dies; Health Expert, 91.|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0226.html|url-status=dead|access-date=October 31, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020216231918/https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0226.html|archive-date=February 16, 2002|quote=Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, health authority, developer of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and founder of the food business which later became the W. K. Kellogg Company, died here last night at the age of 91, nine years short of the century goal which he had set for himself.}}</ref> He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek, Michigan.<ref name="Markel"/>{{rp|385}} In his will, Kellogg left his entire estate to the Race Betterment Foundation.<ref name="Markel"/>{{rp|321}}

==Theological views==
Kellogg was brought up in the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] from childhood. Selected as a protégé of the Whites and trained as a doctor, Kellogg held a prominent role as a speaker at church meetings.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|xiii–xv}} 
 
Throughout his lifetime, Kellogg experienced pressure from both science and religion regarding his theological views.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|xiii–xv}}
At the Seventeenth Annual Session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, October 4, 1878, the following action was taken:

{{blockquote|
WHEREAS, The impression has gone out from some unknown cause that J. H. Kellogg, M.D., holds infidel sentiments, which does him great injustice, and also endangers his influence as physician-in-chief of the Sanitarium; therefore
<br /><br />
RESOLVED, That in our opinion justice to the doctor and the Institute under his medical charge, demand that he should have the privilege of making his sentiments known, and that he be invited to address those assembled on this ground, upon the harmony of science and the Sacred Scriptures.
<br /><br />
This resolution was unanimously adopted, after which the Conference adjourned to the call of the chair.
<br /><br />
[Note. – In accordance with the foregoing resolution, Dr. Kellogg gave, before a large audience, October 6, an able address on the harmony of science and the Bible, for which the congregation tendered him a vote of thanks.]<ref>General Conference Committee minutes, October 4, 1878</ref>}}

===Harmony of science and the Bible===
Kellogg defended "the harmony of science and the Bible" throughout his career, but he was active at a transitional time, when both science and medicine were becoming increasingly [[secularized]]. White and others in the Adventist ministry worried that Kellogg's students and staff were in danger of losing their religious beliefs, while Kellogg felt that many ministers failed to recognize his expertise and the importance of his medical work. There were ongoing tensions between his authority as a doctor, and their authority as ministers.<ref name="Dittes">{{cite book|last1=Dittes|first1=Albert|title=Three adventist titans : the significance of heeding or rejecting the counsel of ellen white.|date=2013|publisher=Teach Services|location=[S.l.]|isbn=978-1479600380|pages=30–40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJiCiD4Vd_sC&pg=PA30|access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref> 
Nonetheless, Kellogg attempted to reconcile science and medicine with religion, rejecting their separation, and emphasizing the presence of God within God's creation of living things.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|xiii–xv}}

{{blockquote|The heart is a muscle. The heart beats. My arm will contract and cause the fist to beat; but it beats only when my will commands. But here is a muscle in the body that beats when I am asleep. It beats when my will is inactive and I am utterly unconscious. It keeps on beating all the time. What will is it that causes this heart to beat? The heart can not beat once without a command. To me it is a most wonderful thing that a man's heart goes on beating. It does not beat by means of my will; for I can not stop the heart's beating, or make it beat faster or slower by commanding it by my will. But there is a will that controls the heart. It is the divine will that causes it to beat, and in the beating of that heart that you can feel, as you put your hand upon the breast, or as you put your finger against the pulse, an evidence of the divine presence that we have within us, that God is within, that there is an intelligence, a power, a will within, that is commanding the functions of our bodies and controlling them…<ref>General Conference Bulletin, 34th Session, 1901, Volume 4, No. 2, April 18, p. 491</ref> }}

He further elaborated these ideas in his book ''The Living Temple'' (1903):

{{blockquote|There is a clear, complete, satisfactory explanation of the most subtle, the most marvelous phenomena of nature, – namely, an infinite Intelligence working out its purposes. God is the explanation of nature, – not a God outside of nature, but in nature, manifesting himself through and in all the objects, movements, and varied phenomena of the universe. ... The tree does not create itself; a creative power is constantly going forward in it. Buds and leaves come forth from within the tree ... So there is present in the tree a power which creates and maintains it, a tree-maker in the tree, a flower-maker in the flower, – a divine architect who understands every law of proportion, an infinite artist who possesses a limitless power of expression in color and form; there is, in all the world about us, an infinite, divine, though invisible Presence, to which the unenlightened may be blind, but which is ever declaring itself by its ceaseless, beneficent activity.<ref name="temple">{{cite book|last1=Kellogg|first1=John Harvey|title=The living temple|date=1903|publisher=Good Health Publishing Co.|location=Battle Creek, Michigan|pages=28–29|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=explanation%20of%20nature;id=hvd.hw1vwg;view=image;seq=44;start=1;sz=10;page=root;num=28;size=100;orient=0 |access-date=August 2, 2017}}</ref>}}

At the same time that Kellogg defended the presence of God in nature against secularization, his co-religionists saw his descriptions of the presence of God in nature as evidence of
[[Panentheism|panentheistic]] tendencies (Everything is in God).<ref name="Fiedler">{{cite book|last1=Fiedler|first1=David|title=Tremble: Blind Faith? or Just Blind?|date=2014|publisher=Remnant Publications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lN8qBwAAQBAJ&q=john+harvey+kellogg+pantheistic&pg=PT8|isbn=9781629130453}}</ref> 
Kellogg rejected their religious criticisms, asserting that his views on indwelling divinity were simply a restatement of the omnipresence of God, and not pantheism.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|xiii–xv}}<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|189}}

===Pantheism Crisis===
His theological views went against many of the traditional tenets of [[Nicene Creed|Nicene Christianity]]. As [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-Day Adventist Church]] beliefs shifted towards orthodox Trinitarianism during the 1890s, Adventists within the denominations were "unable to accommodate the essentially [[Liberal Christianity|liberal]] understanding of Christianity" exhibited by Kellogg, viewing his [[theology]] as [[Pantheism|pantheistic]] and unorthodox.<ref name=":6" /> What came to be referred to as the "Pantheism Crisis" of 1903 was a pivotal moment in the church's history. Kellogg's theological views were only one of the issues involved: operation of the sanitarium was equally if not more important.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|xiii–xv}} 
Control of the sanitarium and its finances had been a source of contention for some time, especially as the institution expanded and attracted more affluent patients.<ref name="Carson">{{cite book|last1=Carson|first1=Gerald|title=The Cornflake Crusade|date=1957|publisher=Rinehart & Company, Inc.|location=New York and Toronto|pages=129–139|url=https://www.nonegw.org/egw71.shtml|access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref> 
Tensions came to a head when the Battle Creek Sanitarium, originally owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church but run by Kellogg, was destroyed by fire on February 18, 1902. Although almost all of the guests escaped safely, property loss was estimated at $300,000 to $400,000, about twice the insured value.<ref name="Fire">{{cite news|title=Fire at Battle Creek Destroys Sanitarium|url=https://www.gendisasters.com/michigan/511/battle-creek%2C-mi-sanitarium-fire%2C-feb-1902|access-date=August 3, 2017|work=Morning World-Herald|agency=Omaha, NE|date=February 19, 1902}}</ref>

[[Ellen G. White]], who had proclaimed that a cleansing sword of fire was poised over the increasingly "worldly" and business-oriented Battle Creek, was against rebuilding the large institution.<ref name="Numbers">{{cite book|last1=Numbers|first1=Ronald L.|title=Prophetess of health : a study of Ellen G. White|date=1976|publisher=Harper & Row|location=New York|isbn=9780060663254|pages=254–256|edition= 1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TNRP8NLNyvEC&pg=PA254|access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Cooper">{{cite book|last1=Cooper|first1=David K. C.|title=Doctors of another calling : physicians who are known best in fields other than medicine|date=2013|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1611494662|page=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3NBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA201|access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref> Although she apparently wrote a manuscript testifying against the rebuilding in 1902, it was not sent to Kellogg at that time,<ref name="Numbers"/> and Kellogg did not directly consult her about his plans.<ref name="Dittes"/>{{rp|38}} With support of the board of directors, he not only rebuilt the institution, but doubled its size. The new building was designed by architect [[Frank Mills Andrews]] of Ohio<ref>{{cite web|title=The Unknown Architect: Frank Mills Andrews|url=http://www.calvarycemeterydayton.org/the-unknown-architect/|website=Calvary Cemetery|date=July 18, 2013 |access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref> and opened on May 31, 1903.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|xiii–xv}}<ref name="Fiedler"/>{{rp|189}} Designed to be fireproof, the new brick building was six stories high, with an elegant frontage extending 550 feet along Washington Avenue, and three wings opening out behind. It included, among other things, a solarium and palm court, and it cost more than $700,000.<ref name="Butler">{{cite book|last1=Butler|first1=Mary|title=The Battle Creek idea: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the Battle Creek Sanitarium|date=1994|publisher=Heritage Publications}}</ref>

===Disfellowship===
Kellogg used proceeds from his book ''The Living Temple'' to help pay the costs of reconstruction. The book's printing was opposed by a commission of the General Council of the Adventists after [[W. W. Prescott]], one of the four members of the commission, argued that it was heretical. When Kellogg arranged to print it privately, the book went through its own trial by fire: on December 30, 1902, fire struck the ''Herald'' where the book was typeset and ready to print.<ref name="Fiedler"/> When it finally appeared in 1903, the book was sharply criticized by White for what she considered its many statements of pantheism.<ref name="Wilson"/>{{rp|84–89}} Over the next few years, there was increasing conflict between Kellogg, General Conference President [[A. G. Daniells]] and others.<ref name="Numbers"/> In 1907, Kellogg was "disfellowshipped", as part of a schism that split the church. Kellogg retained control of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and the American Medical Missionary College, and continued to promote Adventist ideas of health and well-being at those institutions.<ref name="Dittes"/><ref name="Knight">{{cite book|last1=Knight|first1=George R.|title=A Brief History of Seventh-day Adventists|date=2012|publisher=Review and Herald Publishing|isbn=9780812750379|pages=115–118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9qj-gaM5zvkC&pg=PA117|access-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref>

In later life, Kellogg spoke positively of Seventh-day Adventists and Ellen G. White's prophetic ministry, despite their struggles. In 1941, in response to critic E. S. Ballenger, Kellogg admonished Ballenger for his critical attitude to Mrs. White.<ref name="Nix"/>

{{blockquote|Mrs. White was unquestionably an inspired woman. In spite of this fact, she was human and made many mistakes and probably suffered more from those mistakes than any person ever did. Nevertheless, I knew the woman was sincere and honest and that the influence of her life was immensely helpful to a vast multitude of people, and I have not the slightest desire in any way to weaken in the smallest degree the good influence of her life and work.<ref name="Nix">{{cite web|url=http://www.adventisthistory.org/2014/02/12/j-h-kellogg-to-church-critics/|access-date=February 12, 2014 |title=J. H. Kellogg to Edward S. Ballenger, May 23, 1941, as quoted in J. R. Nix, "Kellogg's Counsel to Church Critics," Adventist Review May 25, 1995, pp. 14–15|date=February 12, 2014 }}</ref>}}

==Battle Creek Sanitarium==
{{Main|Battle Creek Sanitarium}}

Kellogg was a [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] until mid-life, and gained fame while being the chief medical officer of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which was owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The sanitarium was operated based on the church's health principles. Adventists believe in promoting a vegetarian diet, abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, and a regimen of exercise, all of which Kellogg followed. He is remembered as an advocate of vegetarianism<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ivu.org/history/adventists/kellogg.html|title=Dr. John Harvey Kellogg|publisher=International Vegetarian Union|access-date=April 23, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517103652/http://www.ivu.org/history/adventists/kellogg.html|archive-date=May 17, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> and wrote in favor of it, even after leaving the Adventist Church.<ref>[http://lifestylelaboratory.com/articles/simple-life-nutshell.html The Simple Life in a Nutshell by J. H. Kellogg<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> His dietary advice in the late 19th century discouraged meat-eating, but not emphatically so. His development of a bland diet was driven in part by the Adventist goal of reducing sexual stimulation.<ref name=plainfacts />

Kellogg was an especially strong proponent of [[Nut (fruit)|nuts]], which he believed would save humanity in the face of decreasing food supplies.<ref name="Itinerary">{{cite book|last1=Kellogg|first1=John Harvey|title=Itinerary of a breakfast : a popular account of the travels of a breakfast through the food tube and of the ten gates and several stations through which it passes, also of the obstacles which it sometimes meets|date=1920|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Company|location=New York|isbn=1572583282|page=[https://archive.org/details/itineraryabreak00kellgoog/page/n193 167]|url=https://archive.org/details/itineraryabreak00kellgoog|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref> Though mainly renowned nowadays for his development of [[corn flakes]], Kellogg also invented a process for making [[peanut butter]]<ref name="Smith">{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Andrew F.|title=Peanuts : the illustrious history of the goober pea|date=2002|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana|isbn=978-0252073281|pages=31–34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JbOsI9RG8fYC&pg=PA32|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Oxford">{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Andrew F.|title=The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0199734962|edition= 2nd.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DOJMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA804|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref> and developed healthy "granose biscuits" which became popular as far away as Australia<ref name="Bagnall">{{cite web|last1=Bagnall|first1=John Baskerville|title=Weet-Bix: The Early History|url=https://weetbixhistory.wordpress.com/weet-bix/|website=Weet-Bix History|date=April 16, 2011|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref> and England.<ref name="Shurtleff"/>

The Battle Creek Sanitarium had its own experimental kitchen. There, Ella Eaton Kellogg helped to develop vegetarian foods, and supervised a "school of cookery" which taught classes in food preparation for homemakers.<ref name="Kitchen">{{cite book|last1=Kellogg|first1=Ella Eaton|title=Science in the Kitchen|date=1893|publisher=Modern Medicine Publishing Co.|location=Chicago|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbzQDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT2|isbn=9781300337539}}</ref> She published a cookbook, ''Science in the Kitchen'', containing hundreds of recipes along with discussions of nutrition and household and diet management. Some of its inventive vegetarian recipes use food products created at the sanitarium, such as Nuttolene (a meat pâté made from peanuts),<ref name="Shurtleff">{{cite book|last1=Shurtleff|first1=William|author-link=William Shurtleff |last2=Aoyagi|first2=Akiko|title=History of Seventh-Day Adventist work with soyfoods, vegetarianism, meat alternatives, wheat gluten, dietary fiber and peanut butter (1863–2013) : extensively annotated bibliography and sourcebook|date=2014|publisher=Soyinfo Center, General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists|location=Lafayette, CA|isbn=9781928914648|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=enWfAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA612}}</ref> 
Protose (a combination of nuts and grains),<ref name="Distillations"/> and various types of nut butters.<ref name="Oxford"/><ref name="FA">{{cite web|title=Science in the Kitchen|url=http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_44.cfm|website=Feeding America|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref>

Kellogg believed that most disease is alleviated by a change in [[intestinal flora]]. He posited that bacteria in the intestines can either help or hinder the body; that pathogenic bacteria produce [[toxin]]s during the digestion of protein which poison the blood; that a poor diet favors harmful bacteria that can then infect other tissues in the body; that the intestinal flora is changed by diet and is generally changed for the better by a well-balanced vegetarian diet favoring low-[[protein]], [[laxative]], and high-[[Dietary fiber|fiber]] foods. He recommended various regimens of specific foods designed to heal particular ailments.

Kellogg further believed that natural changes in intestinal flora could be sped by enemas seeded with favorable bacteria. He advocated the frequent use of an enema machine to cleanse the bowel with several gallons of water. Water enemas were followed by the administration of a pint of [[yogurt]] – half was eaten, the other half was administered by enema, "thus planting the protective germs where they are most needed and may render most effective service." The yogurt served to replace the intestinal flora of the bowel, creating what Kellogg claimed was a squeaky-clean [[intestine]].<ref>{{cite web
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[[File:BattleCreekSanitorium.jpg|thumb|left|280px|Breathing exercises at Battle Creek Sanitarium (c. 1900)]]
Sanitarium visitors also engaged in breathing exercises and mealtime marches, to promote proper [[digestion]] of food throughout the day. Because Kellogg was a staunch supporter of [[phototherapy]], the sanitarium made use of artificial [[sunbath]]s.<ref name="Distillations"/>

Kellogg was a skilled surgeon, who often donated his services to indigent patients at his clinic.<ref>[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0771956.html Biographical sketch.] ''Infoplease.com''</ref> Although generally against unnecessary surgery to treat diseases,<ref>Kellogg, Dr. John Harvey 1923. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XX6kEtwutYsC&pg=PA1 ''Natural Diet of Man'']</ref><ref>Kellogg, Dr. John Harvey 1923. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pR4ab_u5KG0C&pg=PA1 ''Autointoxication'']</ref> in his ''Plain Facts for Old And Young'' he advocated [[circumcision]] as a remedy for "local uncleanliness" (which he thought could lead to "unchastity"),<ref>''Plain Facts for Old And Young'', 1910 ed., [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ucw.ark:/13960/t53f53t5w?urlappend=%3Bseq=238 p. 234]</ref> [[phimosis]],<ref>''Plain Facts for Old And Young'', 1910 ed., [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ucw.ark:/13960/t53f53t5w?urlappend=%3Bseq=359 p. 355]</ref> and "in small boys", [[masturbation]].<ref name="p. 325">''Plain Facts for Old And Young'', 1910 ed., [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ucw.ark:/13960/t53f53t5w?urlappend=%3Bseq=329 p. 325]</ref>

He had many notable patients, such as former president [[William Howard Taft]], composer and pianist [[Percy Grainger]], arctic explorers [[Vilhjalmur Stefansson]] and [[Roald Amundsen]], world travellers [[Richard Halliburton]] and [[Lowell Thomas]], aviator [[Amelia Earhart]], economist [[Irving Fisher]], Nobel prize winning playwright [[George Bernard Shaw]], actor and athlete [[Johnny Weissmuller]], founder of the Ford Motor Company [[Henry Ford]], inventor [[Thomas Edison]],<ref>{{Cite book|date=2015|title=The Papers of Thomas A. Edison|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/book.42649|doi=10.1353/book.42649|isbn=9781421417509}}</ref> African-American activist [[Sojourner Truth]], and actress [[Sarah Bernhardt]].<ref>[[Rynn Berry]], "Famous Vegetarians", Pythagorean Publishers, 2003, pp. 153.</ref><ref>Iacobbo & Iacobbo, "Vegetarian America: A History", Praeger, 2009 p. 130.</ref><ref>Margeret Washington, Sojourner Truth's America, University of Illinois Press, 2009 p. 377</ref>

==Patents and inventions==
===Foods===
John Harvey Kellogg developed and marketed a wide variety of vegetarian foods. Many of them were meant to be suitable for an invalid diet, and were intentionally made easy to chew and to digest. Starchy foods such as grains were ground and baked, to promote the conversion of [[starch]] into [[dextrin]]. Nuts were ground and boiled or steamed.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|114–115, 119}}

The foods Kellogg developed also tended to be bland. In this, Kellogg followed the teachings of [[Ellen G. White]] and [[Sylvester Graham]] who recommended a diet of bland foods to minimize excitement, sexual arousal, and masturbation.<ref>{{cite book
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====Breakfast cereals====
[[File:BlotterKelloggsCornFlakesAdvertizement1910s.jpg|thumb|Early Kellogg's Corn Flakes advertisement]]
Around 1877, John H. Kellogg began experimenting to produce a softer breakfast food, something easy to chew. He developed a dough that was a mixture of wheat, [[oats]], and corn. It was baked at high temperatures for a long period of time, to break down or "dextrinize" starch molecules in the grain. After it cooled, Kellogg broke the bread into crumbs. The cereal was originally marketed under the name "[[Granula]]" but this led to legal problems with [[James Caleb Jackson]] who already sold a wheat cereal under that name. In 1881, under threat of a lawsuit by Jackson, Kellogg changed the sanitarium cereal's name to "Granola".<ref name="Markel">{{cite book| first=Howard |last=Markel |title=The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek |year=2017 |isbn=978-0307907271 |publisher=Pantheon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3siXDQAAQBAJ}}</ref> 
It was used initially by patients at the sanitarium, but slowly began to build up a following among former patients.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|115}} In 1890, John formed the Sanitas Food Company to develop and market food products.<ref name="Engs"/>{{rp|53}}

The Kelloggs are best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal [[corn flakes]]. The development of the flaked cereal in 1894 has been variously described by those involved: Ella Eaton Kellogg, John Harvey Kellogg, his younger brother Will Keith Kellogg, and other family members. There is considerable disagreement over who was involved in the discovery, and the role that they played. According to some accounts, Ella suggested rolling out the dough into thin sheets, and John developed a set of rollers for the purpose. According to others, John had the idea in a dream, and used equipment in his wife's kitchen to do the rolling. It is generally agreed that upon being called out one night, John Kellogg left a batch of wheat-berry dough behind. Rather than throwing it out the next morning, he sent it through the rollers and was surprised to obtain delicate flakes, which could then be baked. Will Kellogg was tasked with figuring out what had happened, and recreating the process reliably. Ella and Will were often at odds, and their versions of the story tend to minimize or deny each other's involvement, while emphasizing their own part in the discovery.<ref name="Markel"/> The process that Kellogg had discovered, tempering, was to be a fundamental technique of the flaked cereal industry.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|116}}

A patent for "Flaked Cereals and Process of Preparing Same" was filed on May 31, 1895, and issued on April 14, 1896, to John Harvey Kellogg as Patent No. 558,393. Significantly, the patent applied to a variety of types of grains, not just to wheat. John Harvey Kellogg was the only person named on the patent.<ref name="Flaked">John Harvey Kellogg, U.S. Patent no. {{US patent|558393|558,393}}, ''Flaked Cereals and Process of Preparing Same'', filed May 31, 1895, issued April 14, 1896.</ref> Will later insisted that he, not Ella, had worked with John, and repeatedly asserted that he should have received more credit than he was given for the discovery of the flaked cereal.<ref name="Markel"/>

During their first year of production, the Kelloggs sold tens of thousands of pounds of flaked cereal, marketing it as "Granose". They continued to experiment using rice and corn as well as wheat, and in 1898 released the first batch of Sanitas Toasted Corn Flakes. A modified version with a longer shelf life was released in 1902.<ref name="Distillations"/> By that time, both "Granose Biscuits" and "Granose Flakes" were available.<ref name="Merrill">{{cite book|last1=Merrill|first1=L. H.|last2=Mansfield|first2=E. H.|title=Eighteenth Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Orono, Maine 1902|date=1903|publisher=Kennebec Journal Print|location=Augusta, Maine|chapter=Cereal Breakfast Foods|pages=144–145|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fTNAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA144|access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref>

Will Kellogg continued to develop and market flaked cereal. When he proposed adding sugar to the flakes, John would not agree to the change. 
So, in 1906, Will started his own company, the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. This marked the start of a decades-long feud between the brothers. Will's Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company eventually became the [[Kellogg Company]], while John was denied the right to use the Kellogg name for his cereals.<ref name="Distillations"/><ref name="Engs"/>{{rp|53}}<ref name="Sivulka">{{cite book|last1=Sivulka|first1=Juliann|title=Soap, sex, and cigarettes : a cultural history of american advertising.|date=2011|publisher=Wadsworth Pub. Co I|location=[S.l.]|isbn=9781133311133|page=89|edition= 2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YoKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA89|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref>

They had other competitors as well, including [[C. W. Post]]. Post was treated at the Battle Creek Sanitarium between February 6 and November 9, 1891, and later by [[Christian Scientists]] whom he credited with his successful treatment. He settled in Battle Creek, opened his own sanitarium, the LaVita Inn, in March 1892, and founded his own dry foods company, [[Post Holdings]].<ref name="Deep Blue">{{cite document|title=Post Family Papers|hdl=2027.42/120465}}</ref>
Post started selling [[Postum]] coffee substitute in 1895.<ref name=pendergrast2010>{{ cite book |title= Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World |first= Mark |last= Pendergrast |author-link= Mark Pendergrast |location= New York City |publisher= [[Basic Books]] |year= 2010 |orig-year= 2001 |edition=  Rev. |isbn= 9780465018369 |oclc= 609871227|page=93}}</ref> 
He issued [[Grape-Nuts]] breakfast cereal, a mixture of yeast, barley and wheat, in January 1898.<ref name="Deep Blue"/> 
In January 1906, Post introduced "Elijah's Manna", later renaming it [[Post Toasties]] Double-Crisp Corn Flakes, and marketing it as a direct competitor to Kellogg's Corn Flakes.<ref name="Sivulka"/><ref name="Aoyagi">{{cite web|last1=Shurtleff|first1=William|last2=Aoyagi|first2=Akiko|title=Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Battle Creek Foods: Work with Soy|url=http://www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/john_kellogg_and_battle_creek_foods.php|website=Soy Info Center|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref>

John Harvey Kellogg was inducted into the [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] in 2006 for the discovery of tempering and the invention of the first dry flaked breakfast cereal, which "transformed the typical American breakfast".<ref name="NIHF">{{cite web|title=John H. Kellogg|url=http://www.invent.org/honor/inductees/inductee-detail/?IID=282|website=National Inventors Hall of Fame|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref>

====Peanut butter====
John H. Kellogg is one of several people who have been credited with the invention of peanut butter.<ref name="Michaud">{{cite magazine|last1=Michaud|first1=Jon|title=A Chunky History of Peanut Butter|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-chunky-history-of-peanut-butter|access-date=April 9, 2018|magazine=The New Yorker|date=November 28, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Smith"/> 
Rose Davis of [[Alligerville Historic District|Alligerville, New York]] has been reported to have made a peanut spread as early as 1840, after her son described Cuban women grinding peanuts and eating the paste on bread.<ref name="Smith"/>{{rp|30}} 
In 1884, [[Marcellus Gilmore Edson]] (1849–1940) of [[Montreal]], Canada obtained a patent for the "Manufacture of peanut-candy", combining 1 part of a "flavoring paste" made from roasted peanuts with 7 parts of sugar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00306727|title=Manufacture of peanut candy, US Patent #306727|publisher=US Patent Office|date=October 21, 1884}}</ref> 
By 1894, George A. Bayle of St. Louis was selling a "Cheese Nut" snack food containing peanuts and cheese; a peanut-only version was apparently more successful.<ref name="Michaud"/><ref name="Krampner">{{cite book|last1=Krampner|first1=Jon|title=Creamy and Crunchy An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food|date=2014|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780231162333|pages=31–34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0PQYBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref>
[[George Washington Carver]] is often credited because of his scientific work with peanuts and promotion of their use.<ref name="Peanut"/>{{rp|357}} Carver and Kellogg corresponded in the 1920s and 30s about the use of both peanuts and [[sweet potatoes]].<ref name="Skrabec">{{cite book|last1=Skrabec|first1=Quentin R. Jr.|title=The green vision of Henry Ford and George Washington Carver : two collaborators in the cause of clean industry|date=2013|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9780786469826|page=82|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32Fa9lCDjSwC&pg=PA82|access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref>

Some form of nut butter, likely made with peanuts, was served to patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium before October 1895, when Kellogg wrote to Ellen White that "some very excellent preparations from nuts" had entirely replaced butter.<ref name="Peanut"/>{{rp|357}}
Kellogg did not patent peanut butter explicitly, and later stated that this was intentional: "Let everybody that wants it have it, and make the best use of it".<ref name="Smith"/>{{rp|32}} Kellogg did, however, apply for two patents relating to "nut butters" in 1895, before anyone else did so.<ref name="Peanut"/>

On November 4, 1895, John H. Kellogg applied for two patents that are relevant to the production of peanut butter.<ref name="Peanut"/> Patent No. 567901, granted September 15, 1896, was for a "Food Compound" which produced "an improved article of manufacture, the alimentary product composed of completely digested starch, completely-emulsified vegetable oil such as described, and thoroughly cooked and finely-divided vegetable proteins derived from nuts, as specified." 
The process described involved taking raw edible nuts, preferably peanuts or almonds, blanching them to remove their skins, and then boiling them for several hours. The nuts were then crushed and passed through rollers to separate out "a fine and comparatively dry and nearly white nutmeal" and a "moist, pasty, adhesive, and brown" butter or paste.<ref>John Harvey Kellogg, U.S. Patent no. {{US patent|567901A|567,901}}, ''Food Compound'', filed November 4, 1895, issued granted September 15, 1896.</ref>

The second patent, No. 604493, granted on May 24, 1898, was for a "Process of Producing Alimentary Products" from "edible nuts, preferably peanuts". The process for making the paste again involved boiling the peanuts, but noted that roasting was a possible alternative. The final substance was heated in sealed cans to obtain "a product differing in many ways from the original paste" with a consistency resembling cheese.<ref>{{cite web|last= Kellogg|first=John Harvey| url=http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=00604493&PageNum=1&IDKey=611D5B869ACB|title=U.S. Patent no. 604493, ''Process of producing alimentary products'', filed November 4, 1895, issued granted May 24, 1898 |publisher=US Patent Office|date=May 24, 1898}}</ref>

By 1898, the Kelloggs were marketing a wide variety of nut-based foods through the Sanitas Nut Food Company.<ref name="Sales">{{cite book|last1=Sanitas Nut Food Company|title=Sanitas nut preparations and specialities|date=1989|publisher=Review and Herald Pub. Co.|location=Battle Creek, Mich.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005668349}}</ref>
Kellogg marketed nut butters as a nutritious protein substitute for people who had difficulty chewing on solid food. Because peanuts were the least expensive nut available, they rapidly dominated the nut butter market.<ref name="Peanut">{{cite book|last1=Shurtleff|first1=William|last2=Aoyagi|first2=Akiko|title=Origin and early history of peanut butter (1884–2015) : extensively annotated bibliography and sourcebook|date=2015|publisher=Soyinfo Center|location=Lafayette, CA|isbn=978-1928914723 |page=363 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EtoaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA363}}</ref>
<ref name="Smith"/><ref name="Oxford"/>

Joseph Lambert, who had worked for Kellogg at the sanitarium, began selling a hand-operated peanut butter grinder in 1896.<ref name="Bellis">{{cite web|last1=Bellis|first1=Mary|title=The history of peanut butter|url=http://theinventors.org/library/inventors/blpeanutbutter.htm|website=The Inventors|access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref> In 1899, his wife Almeida Lambert published a ''Guide for Nut Cookery''.<ref name="Smith"/>{{rp|33}}

====Meat substitutes====
Kellogg credited his interest in meat substitutes to [[Charles William Dabney]], an agricultural chemist and the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Dabney wrote to Kellogg on the subject around 1895.<ref name="Schwarz" />{{rp|119}}

In 1896, Kellogg introduced but did not patent "Nuttose", the first commercially produced alternative to meat. Nuttose was made primarily from peanuts and resembled "cold roast [[mutton]]".<ref name="Shurtleff"/>{{rp|6}}
By seasoning or marinating, Nuttose could be made to taste like fried chicken or barbeque. Served with mashed potatoes and vegetables, it could mimic a traditional American meal.<ref name="Braun">{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/whitny-braun/meat-analogues-just-like-_b_9621080.html|title=Meat Analogues: Just Like Your Adventist Mother Used to Make|last=Braun|first=Whitny |date=April 6, 2016 |website=HuffPost|access-date=March 29, 2017}}</ref>

On March 19, 1901, Kellogg was granted the first United States Patent for a "vegetable substitute for meat", for a blend of nuts and grain cereals called "Protose".
In applying for U.S. Patent No.r "Vegetable-food Compound", Kellogg described Protose as a product "which shall possess equal or greater nutritive value in equal or more available form... By proper regulation of the temperature and proportions of the ingredients, various meat-like flavors are developed, which give the finished product very characteristic properties."<ref name="Shurtleff"/>{{rp|6}}<ref>John Harvey Kellogg, U.S. Patent no. {{US patent|670283|670,283}}, ''Vegetable-food Compound'', filed June 3, 1899, issued granted March 19, 1901.</ref>
Nuttose and Protose were the first of many meat alternatives.<ref name="Braun"/>

====Other foods====
In addition to developing [[imitation meat]]s variously made from nuts, grains, and soy, Kellogg also developed the first [[acidophilus]] [[soy milk]],<ref name="soy">{{Cite web|url=https://www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/john_kellogg_and_battle_creek_foods.php|title=Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Battle Creek Foods|website=www.soyinfocenter.com}}</ref> which was patented in 1934.<ref name="Tofu">{{cite book|last1=Shurtleff|first1=William|last2=Aoyagi|first2=Akiko |title=History of tofu and tofu products (965 CE to 2013) extensively annotated bibliography and sourcebook|date=2013|publisher=Soyinfo Center|location=Lafayette, CA|isbn=9781928914556 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gGrUNvZt0_YC&pg=PA1591}}</ref>
Kellogg advocated that it be administered to bottle-fed babies, to improve their intestinal fauna and combat bowel infections. Perhaps his most famous patients were the [[Dionne quintuplets]]. When he learned that Marie had a bowel infection, Kellogg sent a case of his soy acidophilus to their doctor, [[Allan Roy Dafoe]]. When Marie's infection cleared up, Dafoe requested that Kellogg send an ongoing supply for the quintuplets. By 1937, each one consumed at least a pint per day. Another famous patient who benefited from soy acidophilus was polar explorer [[Richard E. Byrd]].<ref name="Markel"/>{{rp|330–333}}
Kellogg also sold yogurt, soy flour, and soy bread.<ref name="soy" />

===Medical patents===
[[File:Radiant heat bath by John H. Kellogg at the USPTO museum.jpg|thumb|right|Radiant heat bath by John H. Kellogg at the USPTO museum, patent no. 558,394; patented April 14, 1896]]
* {{US patent reference | number=558394 | issue-date=April 14, 1896 | inventor=John Harvey Kellogg | title=Radiant-heat bath}}
* {{US patent reference | number=835622 | issue-date=April 13, 1906 | inventor=John Harvey Kellogg | title=Movement-cure apparatus}}
* {{US patent reference | number=850938 | issue-date=April 23, 1907 | inventor=John Harvey Kellogg | title=Exercising apparatus}}
* {{US patent reference | number=881321 | issue-date=March 10, 1908 | inventor=John Harvey Kellogg | title=Massage apparatus}}

===Medical inventions===
Although they are less discussed than his food creations, Kellogg designed and improved upon a number of medical devices that were regularly used at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in surgical operations and in treatment modalities falling under the term "[[physiotherapy]]".
Many of the machines invented by Kellogg were manufactured by the Battle Creek Sanitarium Equipment Company, which was established in 1890.<ref name="Butler"/>
Dr. Kellogg attempted to popularize these treatment methods, including [[electrotherapy]], [[hydrotherapy]], and motor therapy, in his work ''The Home Handbook of Domestic Hygiene and Rational Medicine'', first published in 1881.<ref name="Home">{{Cite book | title = The Home Handbook of Domestic Hygiene and Rational Medicine | last = Kellogg | first = John Harvey | publisher = Health Pub. Co. | year = 1881}}</ref>

As he specialized in certain gynecological surgeries (particularly [[Hemorrhoidectomy|hemorrhoidectomies]] and [[Ovariotomy|ovariotomies]]) and [[gastrointestinal]] surgeries, he developed various instruments for these operations. These included specialized hooks and [[Retractor (medical)|retractors]], a heated operating table, and an aseptic drainage tube used in abdominal surgery.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|116–127}}

Additionally, Kellogg took keen interest in devising instruments for [[light therapy]], mechanical exercising, proper breathing, and [[hydrotherapy]]. His medical inventions spanned a wide range of applications and included a hot air bath, vibrating chair, oscillomanipulator, window tent for fresh air, [[pneumograph]] to graphically represent respiratory habits,<ref name="Schwarz" /> [[loofah]] mitt, and an apparatus for home sterilization of milk.<ref name="Schwarz" /> Some of his inventions were fashionable enough to be included in the first class gymnasium of the ''[[RMS Titanic]]''.<ref name="Rejuvenators">{{cite web |title=The Kellogg Rejuvenators |url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/23683 |access-date=March 1, 2017}}</ref>

Kellogg did not make concerted efforts to profit from his medical inventions. Kellogg's statement in 1916 about his food company sheds light on his general motivations: "I desire to make clear...that the food business I have been carrying on is a part of my general scheme to propagate the ideas of health and biological living. Otherwise, I should not have engaged in it as a commercial enterprise, but I have carried it on as a part of the general philanthropic work in which I was engaged."<ref name="Schwarz"/>

====Phototherapeutic inventions====
Partly motivated by the overcast skies of Michigan winters, Kellogg experimented with and worked to develop light therapies, as he believed in the value of the [[electric light bulb]] to provide heat penetration for treating bodily disorders.<ref name="Schwarz" />

He constructed his first incandescent light bath in 1891, claiming to treat thousands of patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium before exhibiting the bath at the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago in 1893.<ref name="light preface">{{Cite book|title=Light Therapeutics: a practical manual of phototherapy for the student and the practitioner, with special reference to the incandescent electric-light bath|url=https://archive.org/details/39002011140895.med.yale.edu|chapter=Preface|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|publisher=The Good Health Publishing Co.|year=1910|location=Battle Creek, Michigan|pages=[https://archive.org/details/39002011140895.med.yale.edu/page/n5 2]–3}}</ref> The invention reportedly aroused little attention there but was brought back to Germany, where it began to be manufactured and sold.<ref name="light preface" /> It was spread to Vienna by Kellogg's friend Dr. [[Wilhelm Winternitz]]; installed in royal palaces across Europe; and popularly replaced old Turkish steam baths at athletic clubs.<ref name="Schwarz" /> Only after cabinet baths became popular in Europe did demand within the United States develop. It was imported from [[Berlin]] to New York "as a therapeutic novelty".<ref name="light preface" /> In 1896, Kellogg patented the radiant-heat bath in the United States (US558394).

In order "to make a record of his work and experience as a pioneer in this branch of physiotherapeutics", Kellogg published his book ''Light Therapeutics: a practical manual of phototherapy for the student and the practitioner, with special reference to the incandescent electric-light bath'' in 1910.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Light Therapeutics: a practical manual of phototherapy for the student and the practitioner, with special reference to the incandescent electric-light bath|url=https://archive.org/details/39002011140895.med.yale.edu|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|publisher=The Good Health Publishing Co.|year=1910|location=Battle Creek, Michigan|pages=[https://archive.org/details/39002011140895.med.yale.edu/page/207 207]}}</ref> In the short work, Kellogg describes the application of the arc light to the spine, chest, abdominal region, loins, shoulders, hip and thigh, knees and other joints. He also goes into detail about combining electrotherapies with hydrotherapies, e.g. the electric light bath with shower and shampoo.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Light Therapeutics: a practical manual of phototherapy for the student and the practitioner, with special reference to the incandescent electric-light bath|url=https://archive.org/details/39002011140895.med.yale.edu|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|publisher=The Good Health Publishing Co.|year=1910|location=Battle Creek, Michigan|pages=[https://archive.org/details/39002011140895.med.yale.edu/page/140 140]}}</ref>

====Electrotherapeutic inventions====
Though Kellogg stated that "electricity is not capable of accomplishing half the marvels that are claimed for it by many enthusiastic electrotherapists," he still believed electric currents to be "an extremely valuable therapeutic agent, especially when utilized in connection with hydrotherapy, thermotherapy, and other physiologic methods."<ref name="electrical dept">{{cite book | title=The Battle Creek Sanitarium System. History, Organisation, Methods |chapter= Electrical Department |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/battlecreeksani00kellgoog| last= Kellogg| first= John Harvey| year=1908 | publisher=Gage Printing Co.| location= Battle Creek, Michigan| pages=[https://archive.org/details/battlecreeksani00kellgoog/page/n92 87]–91}} Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org)</ref> As a result, electrotherapy coils were used in the Static Electrical Department of the Battle Creek Sanitarium especially for cases of paresthesias of neurasthenia, insomnia, and certain forms of neuralgia.<ref name="electrical dept" /> Devices were also utilized to administer electric shocks to various parts of a patient's body.

Vibrational therapy by way of sinusoidal (high-frequency oscillating) electric current was discovered by Kellogg in 1884 to have medical use for increasing blood circulation and passive exercise.<ref name="Schwarz" /> In particular, Kellogg invented a vibrating chair used to stimulate vital organs in the lower abdomen.<ref name="Schwarz" /> Even today one can visit the Kellogg Discovery Center in Battle Creek, Michigan, and sit on Kellogg's vibrating chair, which is equipped to mechanically oscillate 20 times per second.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1999/10/03/kelloggs-snap-crackle-pop-culture/47dc59a0-aaaf-4d2c-927b-0b7deeec6546/ | title = Kellogg's Snap, Crackle, Pop Culture | last = Stoltz | first = Craig | newspaper = The Washington Post | access-date = March 1, 2017}}</ref> Furthermore, Kellogg devised an electrotherapy exercise bed in which a sinusoidal current that produced muscular contraction could be delivered without pain for twenty minutes and reportedly achieve the stimulation of a brisk four-mile walk.<ref name="Schwarz" />

====Mechanical massage devices====
Massage devices included two- or four-person foot vibrators, a mechanical slapping massage device, and a kneading apparatus that was advertised in 1909 to sell for {{US$|150.00|1909|round=-2|about=yes|long=no}}.<ref>{{Citation | last = Good Health Publishing Co. | title = 20th Century Therapeutic Appliances | publisher = Good Health Publishing | location = Battle Creek, MI | year = 1909}}</ref> Kellogg advocated mechanical massage, a branch of [[mechanotherapy]], for cases of [[anemia]], general debility, and muscular or nervous weakness.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Quinter | first = John | title = The Good Vibrations | journal = Physiotherapy | volume = 79 | issue = #6 | pages = 370 |year = 1993| doi = 10.1016/S0031-9406(10)60753-5 }}</ref>

====Irrigator====
In 1936, Kellogg filed a petition for his invention of improvements to an "irrigating apparatus particularly adaptable for colonic irrigating, but susceptible of use for other irrigation treatments."<ref name="legal papers">{{Citation | title = Subject Files (primarily medical missionary materials) – Legal Papers and Patents, 1896–1936 | journal = Digitized from a Microfilm Version of Papers Held at the Bentley Historical Library | year = 2014 | hdl = 2027.42/102939 | last1 = Kellogg | first1 = John Harvey }}</ref> The improved irrigator included features such as measuring the amount of liquid entering and exiting the colon as well as indicating and regulating the positive pressure of the pumped liquid.<ref name="legal papers" />

At the Battle Creek Sanitarium, these colonic irrigators were often used to shoot gallons of water up patients' rectums into their colons, sometimes followed by a half-pint yogurt enema to aid in further cleaning. It has been suggested that multiple people would get this treatment at one time.<ref name="Rejuvenators" />

==Views on health==
===Biologic living===
Synthesizing his Adventist beliefs with his scientific and medical knowledge, Kellogg created his idea of "biologic living".<ref name="Wilson">{{Cite book|title=Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living|last=Wilson|first=Brian C.|date=2014 |publisher=Indiana Univ. Press|isbn=978-0-253-01447-4|page=xiv|oclc=898929547}}</ref> This was the idea that appropriate diet, exercise, and recreation was required in order to maintain a healthy body, mind, and soul. As such, the policies and therapies at the Battle Creek Sanitarium were very much in line with these principles of biologic living, such as the focus on vegetarianism or drinking 8–10 glasses of water a day.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Fee|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Brown|first2=Theodore M.|date=June 1, 2002 |title=John Harvey Kellogg, MD: Health Reformer and Antismoking Crusader|journal=American Journal of Public Health|volume=92|issue=#6|page=935|doi=10.2105/AJPH.92.6.935|issn=0090-0036|pmc=1447485|pmid=12036780}}</ref> In fact, his belief that biologic living would protect his health was so strong that he did not even feel it necessary to get vaccinated against smallpox.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|59}}

Kellogg's philosophy was presented in seven textbooks that were prepared for Adventist schools and colleges. In these, Kellogg put his main emphasis on the value of fresh air, exercise, and sunshine, and the dangers of alcohol and tobacco.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|91}} In terms of practice, Kellogg's biologic living was very similar to the methods of Christian physiologists, requiring sexual restraint, total abstinence from drugs, and a vegetarian diet.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|44}}

===Views on tobacco===
Kellogg was a prominent member of the anti-tobacco consumption campaign, speaking out often on the issue.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fee|first=Elizabeth|year=2002|title=John Harvey Kellogg, MD|journal=American Journal of Public Health|volume=92|pages=935|via=EBSCO|doi=10.2105/ajph.92.6.935|pmc=1447485|pmid=12036780|issue=6}}</ref> He believed that consumption of tobacco not only caused physiological damage, but also pathological, nutritional, moral, and economic devastation onto society. His belief was that "tobacco has not a single redeeming feature… and is one of the most deadly of all the many poisonous plants known to the botanist."<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|date=June 1, 2002 |title=Tobaccoism|journal=American Journal of Public Health|volume=92|issue=#6|pages=932–934|doi=10.2105/AJPH.92.6.932|issn=0090-0036|pmid=12036779|pmc=1447484}}</ref> His beliefs were very much in line with the prevailing view of the Adventists, who had become some of the most important supporters of the anti-tobacco movement.

In his 1922 book ''Tobaccoism, or How Tobacco Kills'', Kellogg cited many studies on the negative impacts of smoking, and went so far as to attribute the longer lifespan of women to the observation that they partook in tobacco less than their male counterparts.<ref name=":1" />

Kellogg also served as the president of the Michigan Anti-Cigarette Society, and after the First World War, he served as a member of the Committee of Fifty to Study the Tobacco Problem. This latter group included Henry Ford, George Peabody, and John Burroughs, and ended with the production of one of the first educational motion pictures against smoking.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|107}} Kellogg's work on several committees against smoking culminated in Utah Senator Reed Smoot introducing a bill to Congress in 1929 that aimed to put tobacco under the purview of the Pure Food and Drug Act. In the end, however, this measure failed to pass.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Marino|first=Ronald V.|date=March 1, 2003 |title=Tobaccoism revisited|journal=The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association|volume=103|issue=#3|pages=120–121|issn=0098-6151|pmid=12665218}}</ref>

===Views on alcohol and other beverages===
Though alcoholic beverages were commonly used as a stimulant by the medical community during the time that Kellogg began his medical practice, he was firm in his opposition to the practice.<ref name="Schwarz" /> The usage of alcohol as a remedy to anything was "an evil of stupendous proportions."<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=The Living Temple|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|publisher=Good Health Publishing Company|year=1902|location=Battle Creek, Mich|pages=508–526}}</ref>

Kellogg went against the prevailing notion of the time that alcohol was a stimulant. Citing contemporary research, Kellogg believed that alcohol could not be a stimulant because it lessened vital activity and depressed vital forces.<ref name=":2" /> Seeing its effects on plants, animals, and humans, he felt that alcohol was a poison.<ref name=":2" /> Kellogg noticed deleterious effects that alcohol had on both the brain, the digestive system, and the liver, among other organs.

In addition to the idea that alcohol was an unsuitable therapeutic tool, Kellogg also considered it to lead to mental and moral bankruptcy.<ref name=":2" /> Alcohol was "one of the devil's most efficient agents for destroying the happiness of man, both for the present and the hereafter."<ref name=":2" /> Even moderate drinkers were subject to these effects, as Kellogg felt that a poison was a poison in all doses.

Kellogg also opposed tea and coffee due to the [[caffeine]] content of those beverages. His view was that caffeine was a poison.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The new dietetics : a guide to scientific feeding in health and disease|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|publisher=Kessinger Pub. Co|isbn=0-7661-7965-6|pages=450|oclc=59818713}}</ref> Not only did he detail numerous physiological and developmental problems caused by caffeine, but he also suggested that caffeine usage could lead to moral deficiencies. He blamed the prevalence of these beverages not only on the prohibition of alcoholic beverages at the time, but also on the extensive marketing efforts organized by the producers of these products. Kellogg's view was that "nature has supplied us with pure water, with a great variety of fruit juices and wholesome and harmless flavors quite sufficient to meet all our needs."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The new dietetics : a guide to scientific feeding in health and disease|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|publisher=Kessinger Pub. Co|isbn=0-7661-7965-6|pages=460|oclc=59818713}}</ref>

As early as the 1880s, Kellogg had prepared charts and lectures on the dangers of tobacco and alcohol, which were used widely by lecturers who encouraged temperance in their students.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|106}} In 1878, John Harvey Kellogg, along with Ellen G. White, the founder of the Seventh-day Adventists, and several others, had organized the American Health and Temperance Association.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|107}} The goal of this organization was to expose the far-reaching dangers of tobacco, alcohol, tea, and coffee. For the 15 years that the organization persisted, Kellogg remained as its president.<ref name="Schwarz"/>{{rp|107}}

==Hydropathy==
===Properties of water===
Kellogg has labeled the various uses of hydropathy as being byproducts of the many properties of water. In his 1876 book, ''The Uses of Water in Health & Disease'', he acknowledges both the chemical composition and physical properties of water. Hydrogen and oxygen, when separate, are two "colorless, transparent, and tasteless" gases, which are explosive when mixed.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Uses of Water in Health & Disease|url=https://archive.org/details/usesofwaterinhea00kell|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|publisher=Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer|year=1876|pages=[https://archive.org/details/usesofwaterinhea00kell/page/10 10]}}</ref> More importantly, water, he says, has the highest specific heat of any compound (although in actuality it does not). As such, the amount of heat and energy needed to elevate the temperature of water is significantly higher than that of other compounds like mercury. Kellogg addressed water's ability to absorb massive amounts of energies when shifting phases. He also highlighted water's most useful property, its ability to dissolve many other substances.<ref>Kellogg, John Harvey (1876). ''The Uses of Water in Health & Disease''. Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer. p. 11.</ref>

===Remedial properties of water===
According to Kellogg, water provides remedial properties partly because of vital resistance and partly because of its physical properties. For Kellogg, the medical uses of water begin with its function as a refrigerant, a way to lower body heat by way of dissipating its production as well as by conduction. "There is not a drug in the whole materia medica that will diminish the temperature of the body so readily and so efficiently as water."<ref>Kellogg, John Harvey (1876). ''The Uses of Water in Health & Disease''. Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer. pp. 59–60.</ref> Water can also serve as a sedative. While other substances serve as sedatives by exerting their poisonous influences on the heart and nerves, water is a gentler and more efficient sedative without any of the negative side-effects seen in these other substances. Kellogg states that a cold bath can often reduce one's pulse by 20 to 40 beats per minute quickly, in a matter of a few minutes. Additionally, water can function as a tonic, increasing both the speed of circulation and the overall temperature of the body. A hot bath accelerates one's pulse from 70 to 150 beats per minute in 15 minutes. Water is also useful as an anodyne since it can lower nervous sensibility and reduce pain when applied in the form of hot fomentation. Kellogg argues that this procedure will often give one relief where every other drug has failed to do so. He also believed that no other treatment could function as well as an antispasmodic, reducing infantile convulsions and cramps, as water. Water can be an effective astringent as, when applied cold, it can arrest hemorrhages. Moreover, it can be very effective in producing bowel movements. Whereas purgatives would introduce "violent and unpleasant symptoms", water would not. Although it would not have much competition as an emetic at the time, Kellogg believed that no other substance could induce vomiting as well as water did. Returning to one of Kellogg's most admired qualities of water, it can function as a "most perfect eliminative". Water can dissolve waste and foreign matter from the blood. These many uses of water led Kellogg to belief that "the aim of the faithful physician should be to accomplish for his patient the greatest amount of good at the least expence {{sic|hide=y}} of vitality; and it is an indisputable fact that in a large number of cases water is just the agent with which this desirable end can be obtained."<ref>Kellogg, John Harvey (1876). ''The Uses of Water in Health & Disease''. Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer. pp. 60–62.</ref>

===Incorrect uses of the water cure===
Although Kellogg praised hydropathy for its many uses, he did acknowledge its limits. "In nearly all cases, sunlight, pure air, rest, exercise, proper food, and other hygienic agencies are quite as important as water. Electricity, too, is a remedy which should not be ignored; and skillful surgery is absolutely indispensable in not a small number of cases."<ref>Kellogg, John Harvey (1876). ''The Uses of Water in Health & Disease''. Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer. p. 78.</ref> With this belief, he went on to criticize many medical figures who misused or overestimated hydropathy in the treating of disease. Among these, he criticized what he referred to as "Cold-Water Doctors" who would recommend the same remedy regardless of the type of ailment or temperament of the patient.<ref>Kellogg, John Harvey (1876). ''The Uses of Water in Health & Disease''. Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer. p. 71.</ref> These doctors would prescribe ice-cold baths in unwarmed rooms even during the harshest winters. In his opinion, this prejudicial approach to illness resulted in converting hydropathy to a more heroic type of treatment where many became obsessed with taking baths in ice-cold water. He addresses the negative consequences that resulted from this "infatuation", among them tuberculosis and other diseases.<ref>Kellogg, John Harvey (1876). ''The Uses of Water in Health & Disease''. Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer. p. 72.</ref> This dangerous habit was only exacerbated by physicians who used hydropathy in excess. Kellogg recounts an instance where a patient with a low typhus fever was treated with 35 cold packs while in a feeble state and, not to the surprise of Kellogg, died. Kellogg posits this excessive and dangerous use of hydropathy as a return to the "violent processes" of bloodletting, antimony, mercury and purgatives.<ref>Kellogg, John Harvey (1876). ''The Uses of Water in Health & Disease''. Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer. p. 74.</ref> Kellogg also criticizes the ignorance in "Hydropathic Quacks" as well as in Preissnitz, the founder of modern hydropathy, himself. Kellogg states that the "Quacks" as well as Preissnitz are ignorant for overestimating the hydropathy as a "cure-all" remedy without understanding the true nature of disease.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Uses of Water in Health & Disease|url=https://archive.org/details/usesofwaterinhea00kell|last=Kellogg|first=John Harvey|publisher=Battle Creek, Mich. : Office of the Health Reformer|year=1876|pages=[https://archive.org/details/usesofwaterinhea00kell/page/76 76]}}</ref>

==Views on sexuality==
Both as a doctor and an Adventist, Kellogg was an advocate of sexual abstinence. As a physician, Kellogg was well aware of the damaging impact of [[sexually transmissible diseases]] such as [[syphilis]], which was incurable before the 1910s.<ref name="Frith">{{cite journal|last1=Frith|first1=John|title=Syphilis – Its early history and Treatment until Penicillin and the Debate on its Origins|journal=Journal of Military and Veterans' Health|year=2012|volume=20|issue=#4|pages=49–58|url=http://jmvh.org/article/syphilis-its-early-history-and-treatment-until-penicillin-and-the-debate-on-its-origins/|access-date=August 4, 2017}}</ref>
Kellogg devoted large amounts of his educational and medical work to discouraging sexual activity on the basis of dangers both scientifically understood at the time – as in sexually transmissible diseases – and those taught by the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]].<ref>David F. Horrobin, M.D., PhD, Zinc (St. Albans, Vt.: Vitabooks, Inc., 1981), p. 8. 
See also Carl C. Pfeiffer, PhD, M.D., Zinc and Other Micro-Nutrients (New Canaan, Conn.: Keats Publishing, Inc., 1978), p. 45.</ref><ref>Richard Nies, PhD (Experimental Psychology, UCLA, 1964; equivalent PhD in clinical psychology, including oral exam, but died during dissertation preparation), Lecture, "Give Glory to God," Glendale, Calif., n.d.;
Alberta Mazat, M.S.W. (Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, Calif.), Monograph, "Masturbation" (43 pp.), Biblical Research Institute.</ref><ref>Herbert E. Douglass, Messenger of the Lord: the Prophetic Ministry of Ellen G. White (Nampa, Idaho: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1998), pp. 493, 494</ref>

Kellogg was an adherent of the teachings of [[Ellen G. White]] and [[Sylvester Graham]]. Graham, who inspired the creation of the [[graham cracker]], advocated keeping the diet plain to prevent sexual arousal.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Money |first1=J.| author-link = John Money |title=Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform |journal=The Journal of Sex Research |volume=18 |issue=#2 |pages=181–182 |year=1982 |jstor=3812085 }}</ref> 
Kellogg's work on diet was influenced by the belief that a plain and healthy diet, with only two meals a day, would reduce sexual feelings. 
Those experiencing temptation were to avoid stimulating food and drinks, and eat very little meat, if any.<ref>Numbers, Ronald L, "Sex, ''Science'', and Salvation: The Sexual Advice of Ellen G. White and John Harvey Kellogg," in ''Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene'' ed. Charles Rosenberg, 2003, pp. 218–220.</ref>
<ref>{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0702/gallery.rich_eccentrics.fortune/4.html |work=CNN|title=John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) |access-date=May 6, 2010}}</ref>

Kellogg set out his views on such matters in one of his larger books, published in increasingly longer editions around the start of the 20th century. He was unmarried when he published the first edition of ''Plain Facts about Sexual Life'' (1877, 1st, 356 pages). He and his bride apparently wrote an additional 156 pages during his honeymoon, releasing the new edition as ''Plain Facts for Old and Young'' (1879, 2nd, 512 pages). By 1886 it was 644 pages; by 1901, 720 pages; by 1903, 798; and in 1917 Kellogg published a four-volume edition of 900 pages. An estimated half-million copies were sold, many by discreet door-to-door canvassers.<ref name="Rosenberg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Rosenberg|editor1-first=Charles E.|title=Right living : an Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene|date=2003|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore|isbn=9780801871894|pages=215–216 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0KJ9bqfd3lYC&pg=PA215|access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref>

==="Warfare with passion"===
Kellogg warned that many types of sexual activity, including "excesses" that couples could be guilty of within marriage, were against nature, and therefore, extremely unhealthy. He drew on the warnings of [[William Acton (doctor)|William Acton]]<ref name="O'Donnell">{{cite book|last1=O'Donnell|first1=Michael|title=Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but True Incidents from over Five Centuries of Medical History|date=2002|publisher=Robson|location=London|isbn=9781861055637|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSS_CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT52}}</ref> 
and expressed support for the work of his contemporary [[Anthony Comstock]].<ref name="Hastings">{{cite book|last1=Hastings|first1=Anne Stirling|title=America's sexual crisis : discovering healthy sex by healing culturally caused shame, addiction, and sexual distortion|date=2000|publisher=Wellness Institute|location=Gretna, LA|isbn=978-1587410802}}</ref> He appears to have followed his own advice; it is believed that his own marriage was never consummated.<ref name="Markel"/>{{rp|168}} Kellogg was an especially zealous campaigner against masturbation. This was an orthodox view at the time, especially during the earlier part of his lifetime. Kellogg was able to draw upon many medical sources' claims such as "neither the plague, nor war, nor small-pox, nor similar diseases, have produced results so disastrous to humanity as the pernicious habit of [[onanism]]", credited to one Dr. [[Adam Clarke]]. Kellogg strongly warned against the habit in his own words, claiming of masturbation-related deaths "such a victim literally dies by his own hand", among other condemnations. He felt that masturbation destroyed not only physical and mental health, but moral health as well. Kellogg also believed the practice of this "solitary-vice" caused cancer of the womb, urinary diseases, nocturnal emissions, impotence, epilepsy, insanity, and mental and physical debility; "dimness of vision" was only briefly mentioned. Kellogg thought that masturbation was the worst evil one could commit; he often referred to it as "self-abuse".<ref>{{cite book
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 | date = 1996
 | location = New York | isbn = 9780028740676
 }}</ref>
Kellogg considered sexual climax to be a serious exhaustion of nervous energy, writing "..[sex] is accompanied by a peculiar nervous spasm, ...one more exhausting to the system than any other..."<ref>{{cite book
 
 | title = Plain Facts for Old and Young
 | pages = 64}}</ref>

===Masturbation prevention===
A common myth in popular culture states that Kellogg is responsible for the [[Prevalence of circumcision|widespread prevalence of circumcision]] in the United States. This is not accurate, as Kellogg never promoted routine circumcision of all males in his writings; rather, only men who were chronically addicted to masturbation.<ref name=":3" /> Additionally, Kellogg's suggestions were not taken seriously by mainstream medical professionals at the time.<ref name="plainfacts" /> Individuals such as [[Lewis Sayre]], the founder of the [[American Medical Association]], have had a much more significant influence on the surgery's popularity within the country.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gollaher|first=David|author-link=David Gollaher|date=1994-09-01|title=From Ritual to Science: The Medical Transformation of Circumcision in America|journal=Journal of Social History|volume=28|issue=1|pages=5–36|doi=10.1353/jsh/28.1.5|issn=0022-4529|quote=The medical history of circumcision in the United States properly begins in New York on 9 February 1870... [with] Dr. Lewis A. Sayre [being] summoned...}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|last=Chubak|first=Barbara|date=2013-04-01|title=1101 the orthopedic origin of popular male circumcision in america|url=|journal=Journal of Urology|volume=189|issue=4S|pages=e451|doi=10.1016/j.juro.2013.02.693|quote=Male circumcision was first popularized in late 19th-century America by Lewis Sayre, a renowned orthopedic surgeon, public-health activist, and creator of the Journal of the American Medical Association. On the basis of a few orthopedic case reports, Sayre used his influence to promote male circumcision, by redefining it as a systemic therapy, rather than a local anatomic alteration. This redefinition was consonant with the contemporary reflex neurosis theory of disease, as well as the historic humoral-mechanical understanding of the human body.}}</ref> However, Kellogg did promote extensive measures to prevent masturbation addiction.<ref name="plainfacts" />  He [[Circumcision|circumcised]] himself at age 37. His methods for the "rehabilitation" of masturbation addicts included measures up to the point of cutting off part of the genitals, without anesthetic, on both sexes; he wrote men who did should be circumcised and women that did should have [[Phenol|carbolic acid]] applied to their [[clitoris|clitoral glans.]]<ref name="plainfacts" /> In his ''Plain Facts for Old and Young'', he wrote:<ref name="plainfacts" />

{{blockquote|A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of [[phimosis]]. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.<ref name="p. 325" />}}

further

{{blockquote|a method of treatment [to prevent masturbation] ... and we have employed it with entire satisfaction. It consists in the application of one or more silver sutures in such a way as to prevent erection. The prepuce, or foreskin, is drawn forward over the glans, and the needle to which the wire is attached is passed through from one side to the other. After drawing the wire through, the ends are twisted together, and cut off close. It is now impossible for an erection to occur, and the slight irritation thus produced acts as a most powerful means of overcoming the disposition to resort to the practice}}

and

{{blockquote|In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid ([[phenol]]) to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.}}

He also recommended, to prevent children from this "solitary vice", bandaging or tying their hands, covering their genitals with patented cages and electrical shock.<ref name=plainfacts>{{cite book |title=Plain Facts for Old and Young |last=Kellogg |first=J.H. |year=1888 |chapter=Treatment for Self-Abuse and Its Effects |publisher=Ayer Publishing |isbn= 978-0-405-05808-0 |pages=294–296 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjyV7Ow6qFgC&pg=PA294}}{{gutenberg|no=19924|name=Plain Facts for Old and Young (1881 edition)}}</ref>

In his ''Ladies' Guide in Health and Disease'', for [[nymphomania]], he recommended

{{blockquote|Cool sitz baths; the cool enema; a spare diet; the application of blisters and other irritants to the sensitive parts of the sexual organs, the removal of the clitoris and nymphae...}}

==Later life==
Kellogg would live for over 60 years after writing ''Plain Facts''. He continued to work on healthy eating advice and run the sanitarium, although this was hit by the [[Great Depression]] and had to be sold. He ran another institute in Florida, which was popular throughout the rest of his life,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Biographies/Kellogg-John-Harvey.html|title=Kellogg, John Harvey|publisher=faqs.org|access-date=April 22, 2008}}</ref> although it was a distinct step down from his Battle Creek institute.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Ar-Bu/Battle-Creek-Sanitarium-Early-Health-Spa.html|title=Battle Creek Sanitarium, Early Health Spa|publisher=faqs.org|access-date=April 22, 2008}}</ref>

===''Good Health'' journal===

Kellogg became editor of the ''Health Reformer'' journal in 1874. The journal changed its name to ''Good Health'' in 1879 and Kellogg held his editorial position for many years until his death.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fee |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Brown |first2=Theodore M. |title=John Harvey Kellogg, MD: Health Reformer and Antismoking Crusader |journal=American Journal of Public Health |date=2002 |volume=92 |issue=6 |pages=935 |doi=10.2105/ajph.92.6.935 |pmid=12036780 |pmc=1447485 }}</ref> The ''Good Health'' journal had more than 20,000 subscribers and was published until 1955.<ref>Gevitz, Norman. (1988). ''Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America''. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 70. {{ISBN|978-0801837104}}.</ref>

===Race Betterment Foundation===
{{main|Race Betterment Foundation}}

Kellogg was outspoken about his [[Racism|views]] on [[Race (human categorization)|race]] and his belief in [[racial segregation]], regardless of the fact that he himself raised several [[Black people|black]] foster children. In 1906, together with [[Irving Fisher]] and [[Charles Davenport]], Kellogg founded the [[Race Betterment Foundation]], which became a major center of the new [[Eugenics in the United States|eugenics movement in America]]. Kellogg was in favor of [[racial segregation in the United States]] and he also believed that immigrants and non-whites would damage the white American population's gene pool.<ref>See ''Investigation of Race Betterment Foundation'' by the Attorney General of Michigan; also see, Ruth C. Engs, ''Progressive Era's Health Reform'', 2003, Greenwood Pub. Co., Race Betterment National Conferences, p. 276</ref>

===Late relationship with Will Keith Kellogg===
Kellogg had a long personal and business split with his brother, after fighting in court for the rights to cereal recipes. The [[Foundation for Economic Education]] records that the nonagenarian J.H. Kellogg prepared a letter seeking to reopen the relationship. His secretary decided her employer had demeaned himself in it and refused to send it. The younger Kellogg did not see it until after his brother's death.<ref name="Markel"/>{{rp|381–382}}

==In popular culture==
British actor [[Anthony Hopkins]] plays a highly fictionalized Dr. J.H. Kellogg in the American 1994 film ''[[The Road to Wellville (film)|The Road to Wellville]]'' by Alan Parker.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://battlecreekenquirer.com/story/entertainment/2019/10/24/battle-creek-road-wellville-tc-boyle-kellogg-anthony-hopkins-alan-parker-matthew-broderick/3974083002/|title=Battle Creek reluctant to revisit 'The Road to Wellville' 25 years after film's release|last=Buckley|first=Nick|date=2019-10-24|website=[[Battle Creek Enquirer]]|access-date=2022-08-16}}</ref> This film depicts the fire of the sanitarium building complex, and ends with Dr. Kellogg, years after, dying of a heart attack while diving from a high board.

=== Misconceptions ===
Several [[List of common misconceptions|popular misconceptions]] falsely attribute various cultural practices, inventions, and historical events to Kellogg.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> 

These include false claims that [[Corn flakes|Kellogg's corn flakes]] were invented or marketed to prevent masturbation. In actuality, they were promoted to prevent indigestion.<ref name=":4" /> Another [[common misconception]] falsely credits Kellogg with popularizing routine circumcision in the [[United States]] and broader [[Anglosphere]].<ref name=":3" /> This is also incorrect.<ref name=":5" /> Kellogg opposed both routine and neonatal circumcision.<ref name=":3" /> Instead, favoring it exclusively on a small percentage of the population chronically addicted to [[masturbation]].<ref name=":3" /> By the late 19th century, the belief that circumcision was an effective prophylactic against disease was held by a majority of the [[Anglosphere|Anglophonic world]]'s medical communities and doctors, such as [[Lewis Sayre]], president of the [[American Medical Association]], leading to its widespread adoption in the Anglosphere.<ref name=":5" /><ref name="Paige 2021 263">{{Cite book |last1=Paige |first1=Jeffery |title=The Politics of Reproductive Ritual |last2=Paige |first2=Karen |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2021 |isbn=9780520306745 |pages=263 |chapter=Summary and Implications for Complex Societies}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Gollaher |first=David |author-link=David Gollaher |date=1994-09-01 |title=From Ritual to Science: The Medical Transformation of Circumcision in America |journal=Journal of Social History |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=5–36 |doi=10.1353/jsh/28.1.5 |issn=0022-4529 |quote=The medical history of circumcision in the United States properly begins in New York on 9 February 1870... [with] Dr. Lewis A. Sayre [being] summoned...}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Eugenics in the United States]]
* [[Sylvester Graham]]

==Selected publications==
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* 1877 {{cite book <!--|last=Kellogg  |first=John Harvey -->|title=Plain Facts for Old and Young |quote=Self Abuse ... After having duly considered the causes and effects of this terrible evil, the question next in order for consideration is, How shall it be cured? When a person has, through ignorance or weakness, brought upon himself the terrible effects described, how shall he find relief from his ills, if restoration is possible? To the answer of these inquiries, most of the remaining pages of this work will be devoted. But before entering upon a description of methods of cure, a brief consideration of the subject of prevention of the habit will be in order. | url=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/KelPlai.html }}
* 1888 {{cite book <!--|last=Kellogg  |first=John Harvey -->|title=Treatment for Self-Abuse and Its Effects }}
* 1893 ''Ladies Guide in Health and Disease''
* 1880, 1886, 1899 ''The Home Hand-Book of Domestic Hygiene and Rational Medicine''
* 1903 ''Rational Hydrotherapy''
* 1910 ''Light Therapeutics''
* 1914 ''Needed – A New Human Race'' Official Proceedings: Vol. I, Proceedings of the First National Conference on Race Betterment. Battle Creek, MI: Race Betterment Foundation, 431–450.
* 1915 "Health and Efficiency" Macmillan M. V. O'Shea and J. H. Kellogg (The Health Series of Physiology and Hygiene)
* 1915 ''The Eugenics Registry'' Official Proceedings: Vol II, Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Race Betterment. Battle Creek, MI: Race Betterment Foundation.
* 1918 "The Itinerary of a Breakfast" Funk & Wagnalls Company: New York and London
* 1922 ''Autointoxication or Intestinal Toxemia''
* 1923 ''Tobaccoism or How Tobacco Kills''
* 1927 ''New Dietetics: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease''
* 1929 ''[[The Art of Massage|Art of Massage: A Practical Manual for the Nurse, the Student and the Practitioner]]''<ref>{{cite book
|title=Art of Massage: A Practical Manual for the Nurse, the Student and the Practitioner
|author=John Harvey Kellogg
|year=1996
|publisher=Kessinger Publishing, LLC
|isbn=1-56459-936-1
}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23408805M/The_living_temple Kellogg, John Harvey (1903). ''The Living Temple''. Battle Creek, Mich., Good Health Publishing Company. 568 pages.]
* Deutsch, Ronald M. ''The Nuts Among the Berries''. New York, Ballantine Books, 1961, 1967
* Schwarz, Richard W. ''John Harvey Kellogg: Pioneering Health Reformer''. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 2006
* Wilson, Brian C. ''Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the Religion of Biologic Living''. Indianapolis, IN; Indiana University Press, 2014
* {{cite book| first=Howard |last=Markel |title=The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek |year=2017 |isbn=978-0307907271 |publisher=Pantheon}}

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20181119190545/http://www.healthexhibits.com/web-gallery-2/index_3.htm Photo Gallery (1000+ images) related to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the Battle Creek Sanitarium]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050121094720/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id=KelPlai&tag=public&images=images%2Fmodeng&data=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fparsed&part=0 Etext of ''Plain Facts For Old And Young''] 
* [http://www.thesoydaily.com/SFC/adventist02.asp Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Battle Creek Foods: Work with Soy] from the Soy foods Center (Chinese characters only)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19991007082046/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9840/kellogg.html Dr. John Harvey Kellogg from the Battle Creek Historical Society] (Blank page)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060718085649/http://www.adventistarchives.org/DocArchives.asp Adventist Archives] Contains many articles written by Dr. Kellogg
* [http://www.ex-sda.com/john.htm John Harvey Kellogg: Interview] Concerns his dispute with his church in 1907
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