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...editor, Bernarr Macfadden, altered his policy...
Certainly not. Bernarr Macfadden, the Nation's best-known body-worshipper, knew perfectly well that whether or not the public partook of his pure, apostolic zeal for "physical culture," it was keenly interested in the "cultured" pictures, "frank statements," "plain advice...
Typical of editorials by Bernarr Macfadden on Blood Washing, Sex Determination, Children's Diseases, "Medical Men a Sickly Crowd": "We have received quite a number of communications commenting favorably upon this bathing process [blood washing] though we received one letter from a man who stated that he was suffering from prostatitis and who claimed that the prolonged bath enlarged the prostatic gland to such an extent that ... he had to have an immediate operation. . . ." "Now there are literally hundreds of theories on this particular subject [sex determination]....If from this great conflicting mass of theories we can secure dependable...
Typical headlines: CONVERTING CONGRESS TO PHYSICAL CULTURE PRINCIPLES, by Bernarr Macfadden. "'You are not what you can be until you have thoroughly developed that body of yours,' was my message to the Nation's leaders." (Numerous pictures of the Macfadden family in Washington, one of Macfadden "with Senators Capper, Dill, McFadden,*Magnus Johnson,†Nelson Brookhart") I CONQUERED A BLOOD DISEASE AND RAISED A PHYSICAL CULTURE FAMILY ($500 Prize Story.) THE BODY BEAUTIFUL A MILLION BEING TREATED BY CHIROPRACTIC-RUSSIAN BRIDES AND GROOMS SIGN HEALTH CERTIFICATES WILL BOBBED HAIR MAKE BALD WOMEN ? YES! It was announced that...
...Gazette, 60,084; Leghorn World, 30,662; Stock and Dairy Farmer, 40,374; Physical Culture 306,000, *There exists no Senator McFadden. †Senator Nelson (Minnesota) has been dead these 14 months (April, 1923). Senator Nelson had thick white hair, a white beard, The pseudo "Senator Nelson" in Bernarr Macfadden's picture is quite bald...