About Larkin B Coles
Lived 1803 – 1856 (aged 52–53). Larkin B Coles was an American physician.
Larkin Baker Coles (1803 – 1856) was an American medical doctor, minister, Millerite preacher, anti-tobacco activist and vegetarian.
Biography
Coles was born in New Hampshire. He graduated from Castleton Medical College in 1825. He trained as a minister and was associated with William Miller. He resided in Boston in 1844 and joined the Boston Medical Society and the Massachusetts Medical Society. It had sold 35,000 copies during its first 5 years. The twenty-sixth edition appeared in 1851. The book espoused Christian health reform with arguments for exercise, fresh air, vegetarianism, non-use of stimulants, sexual purity and drugless medicine. Coles defended vegetarianism from a nutritional, physiological and religious basis.
Selected publications
Philosophy of Health: Natural Principles of Health and Cure (1848, 1854) The Beauties and Deformities of Tobacco-Using (1853)
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Larkin B Coles was born in 1803 in New Hampshire.
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Larkin B Coles died in 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Larkin B Coles was a physician.
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