Charles Emmanuel Reinhardt
Born1868
Died1920
Occupation(s)Physician, writer

Charles Emmanuel Reinhardt (1868–1920) was a British physician, animal welfare activist and anti-vivisectionist.

Biography

Reinhardt was the first physician to advocate open-air treatment in England.[1] He established the Hailey Open-Air Sanatorium at Ipsden, Wallingford and acted as visiting physician.[2][3] The sanatorium contained a number of sleeping chalets.[3] He was Honorary Secretary of the Open-Air League and co-authored a handbook on open air treatment.[4][5][6] In his book Diet and the Maximum Duration of Life, Reinhardt argued that colon cleansing was responsible for postponing old age.[7][8] Reinhardt was influenced by the research of Élie Metchnikoff and was one of the earliest physicians to promote the consumption of yoghurt.[9] In his book 120 Years of Life: The Book of the Sour Milk Treatment (1910), he described yogurt as the "deliberate employment of microbes which confer a benefit upon their human host."[9]

He changed his second name to Reinhardt-Rutland in August 1914.[10]

Animal welfare

Reinhardt was an anti-vivisectionist.[8] He was associated with the National Anti-Vivisection Society.[11] He served as Chairman for the Council of Justice to Animals[12] and was an executive committee member for the Horses and Drivers' Aid Committee. In 1912, Reinhardt attended a meeting at Torre Abbey in which he defended animals as akin to humans because they feel pain and experience suffering.[13] Reinhardt opposed excessive meat eating but promoted dairy products.[7]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Logan, Russell (1904). "The Santa Cruz Mountains of Jamaica West Indies, for the Tuberculous". American Medicine. 7 (22): 868–869.
  2. ^ "The Prevention Of Consumption". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2202): 634. 1903. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2202.634. PMC 2513075. PMID 20760777. S2CID 28076081.
  3. ^ a b Walters, F. Rufenacht. (1905). Sanatoria for Consumptives: A Critical and Detailed Description Together With an Exposition of the Open-Air or Hygienic Treatment of Phthisis. New York: E.P. Dutton. pp. 159-160
  4. ^ "Reviewed Work: A Handbook Of The Open-Air Treatment And Life In An Open-Air Sanatorium by Charles Reinhardt, David Thomson". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2202): 614. 1903.
  5. ^ "A Handbook Of The Open-Air Treatment". The Lancet. 1: 244. 1903.
  6. ^ "Medical News". The British Medical Journal. 2 (2387): 791. 1906.
  7. ^ a b "Diet and the Maximum Duration of Life". The Lancet. 1: 311–312. 1911.
  8. ^ a b Stark, James F. (2020). The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain. Cambridge University Press. pp. 74-75. ISBN 978-1108484152
  9. ^ a b Novak, Celeste Allen (2018). "Yoghurt as Living Culture" (PDF). Repast: Quarterly Newsletter of the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. 34 (1): 3–8.
  10. ^ The London Gazette. (September 1, 1914).
  11. ^ "The Sweet Resonableness of the Antivivisectionist". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2360): 699–700. 1906.
  12. ^ Lee, Paula Young. (2008). Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse. University of New Hampshire Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-58465-698-2
  13. ^ "‘Justice for Animals’ at Torre Abbey". We Are South Devon.
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