Susanna Way Dodds, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Susanna Way Dodds

American physician

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1830

Place of Birth: Randolph County, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1911

Profession: physician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Susanna Way Dodds (November 10, 1830 – January 20, 1911) was an American physician, hydrotherapist and natural hygiene proponent. Dodds was born in Randolph County, near Richmond, Indiana.
She was a vegetarian and advocate of women's rights.
Dodds was the fourth woman in America to be become a physician.
In 1864, she graduated from Russell T.
Trall's New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College.
Dodds practiced medicine in St.
Louis from 1886-1909.Dodds' sister-in-law Mary was also a physician.
Dodds and her husband Andrew espoused a hygienic method of treating disease.
In 1878, Dodds and her sister opened a sanitarium, the Dodds' Hygeian Home.
In 1887, they established the Hygienic College of Physicians and Surgeons in St.
Louis, Missouri.
They did not use any drugs except in cases for relieving pain.
They focused on "natural methods of treatment: diet, exercise, massage, electricity and hydrotherapy in all of its manifold applications".
Dodds proposed a strict hygienic diet which forbid the consumption of baking powder, meat, milk, soda, spices and sweeteners.
She published the magazine, The Sanitarian.Dodds died on January 20, 1911, from senile debility at Long Beach, California.
After Dodds died in 1911, her sister continued to manage the Hygienic College until she sold it in 1912.
Natural hygienist Herbert M.
Shelton was influenced by Dodds.