Wilmer Ingalls Gordon

Wilmer Ingalls Gordon (14 February 1860 – 7 March 1943) was an American osteopathic physician and vegetarianism activist.

Biography

Gordon was born on February 14, 1860, in Mullica Hill, New Jersey. He was educated at the medical department of Union University in Albany, New York and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Maryland. He studied at the Chicago School of Osteopathy and practiced medicine in New York City. He authored books on New Thought and vegetarianism. His book Suggestion and Osteopathy (1901), was negatively reviewed by medical experts. His views on osteopathic treatment for certain diseases were described in a review as non-scientific and "do not commend themselves to us as rational or well proven".

Vegetarianism

Gordon was a vegetarian and believed that "alcohol, tobacco, and flesh food was the trinity of all existing evil for mankind".

Publications I Suggest: Suggestion and Osteopathy (1901) How to Live 100 Years: Or, the New Science of Living (1903) The New Force (1903)