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Abramowski came to the conclusion that meat-eating is a major cause of disease and that fasting and fruit aids recovery. He established a naturopathic Sun
Sanatorium in Coronet Hill, although it was not a financial success. His extreme ideas about fruit fasting were not popular with patients at his
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and was one of its first settlers where he lived and practiced for twenty years. He was an
Irrigation Trust Commissioner in Mildura and served on the Horticultural Society Committee. He was interested in fruit and vegetable farming and planted 20 acres of
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sanitarium which caused him disappointment so he compromised with them by prescribing a light fruit diet. Abramowski received opposition from the medical community and was described as a "lone fighter" for fasting.
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poisoning. He also opposed consumption of alcohol, bread, coffee and tea. In 1909, he patented a self preserved food composition made from nuts and raisins. His book
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where he qualified M.D. in 1876. He was appointed an army surgeon in the German army in 1875 and held this position for eight years. He moved to
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342:"Births, Marriages and Deaths"
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455:"United States Patent Office"
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296:Australasian Medical Gazette
82:Otto Louis Moritz Abramowski
379:"Lecture by Dr. Abramowski"
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363:"Death of Mrs. Abramowksi"
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519:"The Late Dr. Abramowski"
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263:"Death of Dr. Abramowski"
140:diet and authored a book
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110:University of Königsberg
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177:Order of the Golden Age
104:Abramowski was born in
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399:The Mildura Cultivator
367:The Mildura Cultivator
331:(September 1905), p. 3
329:The Mildura Cultivator
267:The Mildura Cultivator
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1028:Edward Earle Purinton
808:Friedrich Eduard Bilz
369:(28 March 1891). p. 3
212:Selected publications
202:Elsternwick, Victoria
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427:"The Staff of Death"
411:"A Doctor's Opinion"
114:University of Berlin
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1078:Frank Newman Turner
1048:Gustav Schlickeysen
908:Jesse Mercer Gehman
473:Global Food History
75:Surgeon, naturopath
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1129:Leaky gut syndrome
1063:Herbert M. Shelton
1023:Vincenz Priessnitz
863:Hulda Regehr Clark
848:Thierry Casasnovas
51:Kingdom of Prussia
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1144:Vaccine hesitancy
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1058:Ernst Schweninger
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923:Adolphus Hohensee
898:August Engelhardt
833:Stanley Burroughs
642:Chelation therapy
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385:(May, 1907). p. 2
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218:Eating for Health
206:Eating for Health
163:. He argued that
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1033:Arnold Rikli
973:Gordon Latto
913:Theodor Hahn
893:Arnold Ehret
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963:Louis Kuhne
868:Victor Dane
843:Paul Carton
838:Otto Carque
828:James Burns
823:Haydn Brown
798:Robert Bell
761:Naturopaths
727:Reflexology
717:Oil pulling
707:Mud bathing
677:Halotherapy
612:Acupuncture
598:Naturopathy
543:: 47. 1911.
165:meat-eating
148:. He was a
94:raw foodist
1347:Orthopaths
1291:Categories
1098:Arno Wolle
943:Adolf Just
697:Homeopathy
617:Apitherapy
237:References
138:fruitarian
90:fruitarian
86:naturopath
1377:Vitalists
983:Elmer Lee
948:Hans Kalm
742:Sungazing
702:Iridology
692:Herbalism
605:Practices
169:uric acid
150:Freemason
134:Melbourne
127:asparagus
100:Biography
1265:Category
1246:Quackery
1149:Vitalism
687:Naturism
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281:. p. 155
112:and the
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47:Osterode
1276:Commons
1229:Related
1158:Critics
1107:Beliefs
737:Rolfing
667:Fasting
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161:raisins
157:almonds
122:Mildura
1124:Holism
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