Bertrand P. Allinson | |
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 Allinson in 1962 | |
| Born | Bertrand Peter Allinson (1891-08-12)12 August 1891 Marylebone, London, England[1] |
| Died | 1 April 1975(1975-04-01) (aged 83) Marylebone, London, England |
| Alma mater | University College Hospital |
| Occupations | Physician, naturopath, writer, activist |
| Father | Thomas Allinson |
| Relatives | Adrian Allinson (brother) |
Bertrand Peter AllinsonMRCS LRCP (12 August 1891 – 1 April 1975) was an English physician,naturopath and writer. He was also ananti-vaccination,anti-vivisection andvegetarianism activist.
Allinson was the son ofThomas Allinson and brother ofAdrian Allinson.[2][3] He was raised as avegetarian and studied medicine. Allinson qualified MRCS and LRCP in 1914 from theUniversity College Hospital.[4] He was a Captain in theRoyal Army Medical Corps (1916–1920).[4] Allinson was a physician at the British Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases.[2]
Allinson was ananti-vaccinationist andanti-vivisectionist. He opposed the use of pharmaceutical drugs which he believed hindered the "automatic cleansing process".[2] Allinson wrote articles supportive ofnaturopathy. He was vice-president of theNational Anti-Vaccination League.[2]
Allinson was a physician at the Nature Cure Clinic, a naturopathic hospital which promoted vegetarianism and animal welfare causes such as anti-vivisection.[5] The Nature Cure Clinic opened in 1928 at an apartment inBaker Street.[6] In 1940, the out-patient building was destroyed by bombing and the Clinic moved to Allinson's house inDorset Square. After the war, the clinic moved to Oldbury Place.[6]
Allinson was treasurer of theLondon and Provincial Anti-Vivisection Society.[7] His daughter Sonya Madeleine Allinson was an artist.[8]
Allinson stated that fruit juicefasting, a strict vegetarian diet and naturopathic practices such ashydrotherapy andosteopathy could be used to prevent and cure many diseases includingcancer,hypertension andrheumatism.[7][9][10][11] He opposed the consumption of alcohol, coffee, meat, processed sugar, tea, white bread and promoted a vegetarian diet of raw fruit, nuts, salads, dairy products andwhole grains.[11] He described alcohol, coffee and tea as injurious to the functions of the body.[12] Allinson recommended persons between the ages of 25 and 55 to take two meals per day and after that age one meal per day in the afternoon.[12] Allinson was vice-president of East Surrey Vegetarian Society.[13]
Allinson was vice-president of theInternational Vegetarian Union (1958–1963) and President of theLondon Vegetarian Society (1922–1962).[14][15]
