Smith, Ellen Goodell (1835-1906)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Ellen Goodall was born on 25 August 1835 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and died on 3 November 1906. She was active in hydropathic circles and acquainted with the prominent water-cure practitioners and theorists. After training as a hydrotherapist she worked with Russell Trall and became resident physician at his sanitarium in Philadelphia in 1864. In 1868, with her husband, Smith established the first hydropathic clinic in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She authored the cookbook, The Fat of the Land and How to Live on It in 1896 which has been described as an early vegan cookbook. The chapter "Milk and the Cow" recommends refusal of dairy products and butter, cream, milk, salt and sugar are not used in her recipes.

 

 

IMAGE: Ellen Goodell Smith, 1896. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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