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[E1152-F] (E-11-52) Health and Diet

Title: [E1152-F] (E-11-52) Health and Diet
Description: This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison's widely publicized views on longevity, his recommendations for good health, and his personal habits, physical condition, and ailments. Some of the letters, containing Edison's reply in the form of marginalia, concern smoking, diet, and referrals to physicians. Also included is a questionnaire that Edison agreed to circulate among his workers on behalf of author and attorney Bolton Hall. Among the correspondents are Clarence I. Peck, an acquaintance from Fort Myers, Florida, and physicians George T. Jackson of New York and Sir James A. Grant of Canada.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The following categories of documents have not been selected: unsolicited circulars, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings; correspondence receiving no reply. Also not selected is a letter regarding a purported remedy by Edison for hardening of the arteries, along with a marginal notation indicating that the writer had "misunderstood the articles in the papers."
URL: https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/folder/E1152-F
Identifier: E1152-F
Type: Edison General File
Rights: Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.
Is Part Of: Edison General File Series -- 1911
Alternative Title: (E-11-52) Health and Diet
Has Version: Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 249

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