Daniel Hartman Kress | |
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 Kress,c. 1925 | |
| Born | Daniel Hartman Cress (1862-06-27)June 27, 1862 |
| Died | November 2, 1956(1956-11-02) (aged 94) |
| Occupation | Physician |
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| Children | 3, includingOra |
Daniel Hartman Kress (bornDaniel Hartman Cress; June 27, 1862 – November 2, 1956) was a Canadian medical doctor,anti-smoking activist,Seventh-day Adventist missionary andvegetarian. He advocated avegan diet on religious grounds; after health issues he promoted alacto-ovo vegetarian diet. He said that meat eating shortens ones lifespan.
Kress was born on June 27, 1862, inSt. Jacobs, Ontario.[1] He and his wife obtained their M.D. degrees at the same graduation from theUniversity of Michigan Medical School in 1894. Kress and his wifeLauretta Eby Kress were Seventh-day Adventists who trained at theBattle Creek Sanitarium.[2] He specialized in internal medicine at Battle Creek (1894–1898) and was medical director at Meadvale Sanitarium and Hospital at Surrey Hill, London (1898–1900).[1]
He was physician-in-chief ofSydney Sanitarium inWahroonga (1900–1907).[1] He was the medical director ofWashington Sanitarium and Hospital atTakoma (1907–1910). He specialized in neurology (1915–1939).[1] He was a neurologist at theFlorida Sanitarium and Hospital inOrlando, Florida (1939–1948). Kress retired in 1949.[1]
Kress was the editor ofAustralasian Good Health and theLife and Health magazine.[3][4] Kress was a member of theAmerican Medical Association.[1] He married Lauretta Eby in 1884, they had several children.[1] Kress died aged 94.[1]
Kress was vice-president of theAnti-Cigarette League.[5] In 1913, Kress andLucy Page Gaston founded a smoking-cure clinic at the Anti-Cigarette League's Chicago headquarters inChicago.[6] Kress patented a mouthwash which contained a weak nitrate solution which he believed would cure all craving for cigarettes.[7][8]
Kress was originally avegan and believed that butter, eggs, meat and milk should be avoided. He argued that plants contained "all the elements needed for the human body".[2] Kress visitedNew Zealand in 1901. He worked at the Christchurch Medical and Surgical Sanitarium.[2] He lectured at the Christchurch Art Gallery on food reform, condemning alcohol and meat consumption.[2] Kress was a teetotaller who believed that animal flesh "created a craving for alcoholic drink".[2] He argued that meat-eating shortens ones lifespan.[2]
Kress suffered from pernicious anemia and was expected to die in 1901.[9] His wife arranged for him to be buried atAvondale College cemetery. However, he received a letter fromEllen G. White which advised he be given fresh-beaten eggs in grape juice, as "this will supply that which is necessary for your system".[9] The letter also stated that eggs and milk should be included in the diet as these "cannot at present be dispensed with, and the doctrine of dispensing with them should not be taught".[10] He followed the counsel given and slowly recovered. His health had deteriorated from an unbalanced vegan diet. He became a vegetarian, adding dairy and eggs to his diet. He fully recovered and lived another 55 years.[9] Kress made other trips to New Zealand.[2] In 1905, he lectured in Gisborne on dieting and longevity. He promoted a Biblical diet of fruit, grains, nuts and seeds as the original diet of mankind.[2] Kress condemned tobacco smoking as a cause of cancer and a "crime to the community, as it poisons the air".[2]
Kress opposed the consumption of mustard, peppers, pickles and spices as they created a thirst for alcohol and were "not designed to be fed into the human body".[2] In 1909, Kress and his wife authored theGood Health Cookery Book which contains meatless recipes based around cereals, fruits and vegetables. The Kresses advised two meals a day and suggested nutmeat or protose (a mixture of nuts and gluten) as substitutes for meat.[2]
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