Harry Campbell

Harry Campbell (1860 – 8 July 1938) was a British physician, pathologist and writer. He campaigned against cereal and starch foods and promoted a pre-agricultural diet that consisted of animal source foods and raw vegetables.

Biography

Campbell was born in Margaretting. He was educated at Carshalton and in Neuwied. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital and obtained MRCS (1881), MBBS (1882) and M.D. (1885). He married Nora Lacy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He retired as physician in 1919.

Campbell authored the book What is Wrong With British Diet?, in 1936. Campbell argued that the British diet was too heavy in cereal foods, cooked vegetables and puddings which provided inadequate mastication. He believed that habitual consumption of soft "pappy" foods and "pultaceous puddings" caused undersized jaws and dental disease.

Campbell wrote several medical research papers on mastication and the physiology of the jaw bones, jaw muscles and teeth formation in children and this is reflected in the series published in The Lancet, Observations on Mastication I-III in 1903. He died in Norwood, North Yorkshire.

Selected publications

The Causation Of Disease (1889) Headache, and Other Morbid Cephalic Sensations (1894) Respiratory Exercises in the Treatment of Disease (1899) Observations on Mastication (The Lancet, 1903) The Evolution of Man's Diet (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, The Lancet, 1904) On Treatment (1907) Alcohol in Health and Disease (A System of Diet and Dietetics, 1908) The Cause and Prevention of Dental Caries. (American Dental Journal, 1908) The Evolution of Man's Diet (A System of Diet and Dietetics, 1908) Aids to Pathology (1915) Food Economics in Relation to the War (The Lancet, 1916) General Observations on Diet (Detroit Medical Journal, 1920) Evolution, Past and Future (1923) Fundamental Principles in Treatment (1924) What Is Wrong With British Diet? (1936)