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Michelbach, Baden, Germany. Died. September 5, 1945. (1945-09-05) (aged 73) Butler, New Jersey, U.S. Occupation (s) Naturopath, writer. Benedict Lust (February 3, 1872 – September 5, 1945) was a German -born American who was one of the founders of naturopathic medicine in the first decades of the twentieth century.
- September 5, 1945 (aged 73), Butler, New Jersey, U.S.
- Naturopath, writer
Aug 3, 2012 · Dr. Benedict Lust (1872 - 1945) is considered the father of American naturopathy. Born in Baden, Germany he, like many of the founders of naturopathy, had been introduced to natural forms of healing due to personal health concerns. Dr. Lust had originally immigrated to the United States in 1892 to seek his fortune, yet when he contracted a ...
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After a fatal diagnosis of tuberculosis, Doctor Lust returned to his native Germany where he found miraculous healing in the hydrotherapy used by a priest. Wanting to share his discoveries in the study of natural health, Doctor Lust returned to America where he opened hospitals, a school, and a health food store—all the first of their kind ...
The main practitioner who is known to have formulated naturopathy at the beginning of the 20 th century was Benedict Lust who trained in chiropractic and adopted the term “ Naturopath” which he purchased from a colleague of his, a Dr John Scheel. Lust opened the first ‘Health food store’ in America in 1895 (originally called ‘Kneipp ...
Benedict Lust at the age 24 years began publishing a monthly magazine to promote Father Sebastian Kneipp’s water cure therapies from Germany in 1896 in New York City. This magazine would change its name several times over the next 50 years and morph into the first naturopathic magazine in 1902, The Naturopath and Herald of Health.
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- 2019
Benedict Lust, the historical progenitor of naturopathy in the United States, taught and endorsed chiropractic very early in the 20th century, but it was Solon Langworthy, an early student of D. D. Palmer, who opened the second identifiable school of chiropractic in 1903 and based its curriculum on mixing nature cure with chiropractic. 6
American School of Naturopathy. On March 1, 1901, Benedict Lust founded the American School of Naturopathy. Located at 124 East 59th Street in New York City, it was the first institution in America to offer personal instruction in naturopathy. The school taught every branch of Nature Cure in a two-year general course.
