History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1855 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Graham and the Body
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The idea
Sylvester Graham, a Presbyterian minister who began in temperance, built a Science of Human Life calling for vegetables, fruits and grain and no alcohol, meat or spices.
In practice
Hydropathy, or water cures, becoming popular in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Where people slip
He treated masturbation and excessive sex as causes of disease, and he invented the Graham cracker in eighteen twenty-nine.
Your place on the trail
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