1. Andrea Carlo Francisco Rabagliati was a Scottish physician, naturopath and author of books on dietary practice.
19 Facts About Andrea Rabagliati
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Andrea Rabagliati was the son of Giacomo Rabagliati, a political refugee from Italy, and Caroline Kinnison.
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In 1860, Rabagliati spent two years in British Guiana with his uncle.
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Andrea Rabagliati won a gold medal for his thesis on relapsing fever.
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Andrea Rabagliati was assistant medical officer to the Bradford Workhouse and was house surgeon to the Bradford Infirmary in 1870.
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Andrea Rabagliati was appointed surgeon to the Bradford Infirmary in 1877 and a medical officer to the Bradford Fever Hospital.
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Andrea Rabagliati was invested as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1890.
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Andrea Rabagliati was a consulting surgeon to Bingley Hospital and established St Catherine's Home for Cancer.
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Andrea Rabagliati married Helen Priscilla McLaren, daughter of Duncan McLaren and Priscilla Bright McLaren, on 25 May 1877.
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Andrea Rabagliati was the President of Ben Rhydding Women's Unionist Association for 28 years and of the Wharfedale Conservative Women's Club for several years after World War One.
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Andrea Rabagliati was a member of the Yorkshire branch of the British Medical Association from 1888 to 1892 and was president of the branch from 1893 to 1894.
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Andrea Rabagliati has been described as an advocate of alternative medicine and the "nature cure".
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Andrea Rabagliati was one of the earliest fully qualified medical men to advocate for nature cure.
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Andrea Rabagliati was a convinced vegetarian, who favoured two meals a day, with eight hours between them.
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Andrea Rabagliati was prescribed a milk and soup diet with two ounces of rice for a few weeks.
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Andrea Rabagliati was influenced by this diet and in 1902 converted to vegetarianism.
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Andrea Rabagliati believed that people could add fifteen years to their lives by following his diet.
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Andrea Rabagliati held some unorthodox ideas, for example he believed that bodily energy and heat do not come from any food source.
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Andrea Rabagliati authored a book about this in 1907 titled The Functions Of Food In The Body and wrote the introduction to Hereward Carrington's Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition, which expounded on these ideas.