Charles Reinhardt Explained

Charles Emmanuel Reinhardt
Birth Date:1868
Death Date:1920
Occupation: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

Notes and References

  1. Logan, Russell. 1904. The Santa Cruz Mountains of Jamaica West Indies, for the Tuberculous. American Medicine. 7. 22. 868–869.
  2. 1903. The Prevention Of Consumption. The British Medical Journal. 1. 2202. 634. 10.1136/bmj.1.2202.634. 20760777 . 2513075 . 28076081.
  3. 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. 1903. 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.
  5. 1903. A Handbook Of The Open-Air Treatment. The Lancet. 1. 244.
  6. 1906. Medical News. The British Medical Journal. 2. 2387. 791.
  7. 1911. Diet and the Maximum Duration of Life. The Lancet. 1. 311–312.
  8. Stark, James F. (2020). The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain. Cambridge University Press. pp. 74-75.
  9. Novak, Celeste Allen. 2018. Yoghurt as Living Culture. Repast: Quarterly Newsletter of the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor. 34. 1. 3–8.
  10. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28886/page/6949/data.pdf The London Gazette
  11. 1906. The Sweet Resonableness of the Antivivisectionist. The British Medical Journal. 1. 2360. 699–700.
  12. Lee, Paula Young. (2008). Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse. University of New Hampshire Press. p. 108.
  13. https://wearesouthdevon.com/justice-animals-torre-abbey/ "‘Justice for Animals’ at Torre Abbey"

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