FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
James Caleb Jackson (March 28, 1811 - 1895 was the inventor of the first dry, whole grain cereal which he called granula 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
He was born in Manlius, Onondaga County, New York, 28 March, 1811. He was educated at the Chittenango polytechnic institute, and was a farmer till 1838, when he entered the service of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society as a lecturer. In 1840 he left the field to become corresponding secretary of this society, which place he held till 1842, becoming in that year editor of the "Madison County Abolitionist," at Cazenovia, New York In the autumn of 1844, together with Abel Brown, of Troy, he purchased the Albany "Patriot," and he edited and managed it till 1847, when failing health compelled him to relinquish journalism. In the autumn of 1847 he founded a hydropathic institute at the head of Skaneateles lake, New York, and until 1858 was its principal proprietor and physician. In that year he founded "Our Home Hygienic Institute" at Dansville, Livingston County, New York, which claims to be the largest institution of the kind in the world. Dr. Jackson has had under his care fully 20,000 patients,
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1861 The Sexual Organization and its Healthy Management
1862 Consumption: How to prevent It, and How to cure It
1870 How to treat the Sick without Medicine
1870 American Womanhood: Its Peculiarities and Necessities
Jackson was not a man of capital, but a man of ideas and great force of character, and had a large clientage, by reason of his great success as a water cure physician during the time he had practiced at Glen Haven.
Jackson was the son of Dr. JamesJackson, a successful practioner of medicine and surgery in Manlius and the surrounding country.
Lucretia Edgerton Jackson was born in the town of Mexico, Oswego Co. N. Y., Feb. 26, 1810, being the daughter of Judge Elias Brewster, an early resident of the town, and a man of force and prominence in the community.
The history of the Jackson Sanitorium dates from the year 1852, when Nathaniel Bingham, who was more or less of an invalid and who became interested in the growing Water Cure practice, but lately introduced from Germany, thought it would be a good idea to have a little Water Cure at Dansville.
Jackson had a large clientage, by reason of his success as a water cure physician during the time he had practiced at Glen Haven.
In 1879 Dr, Jackson's failing health obliged him to resign the responsible management of the Sanatorium to his son, Dr. James H. Jackson, although he continued to hold quite active relationship to it until 1883, often counseling with the physicians and lecturing in the chapel of the Sanitorium.
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