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Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness and good-for-nothingness of the entire community?

John Harvey Kellogg

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John Harvey Kellogg
Age: 91 †
Born: 1852
Born: February 26
Died: 1943
Died: December 14
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