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Robert Walter (February 14, 1841 – October 26, 1921) was a Canadian American physician and natural hygiene proponent.

Robert Walter
Born	(1841-02-14)February 14, 1841 Acton, Ontario
Died	October 26, 1921(1921-10-26) (aged 80) Reading, Pennsylvania
Occupation	Physician, writer

Biography

Walter was born in Acton, Ontario. As a young man he moved to Danville, New York where he studied medicine.[1] He graduated from the Hygeio-Therapeutic College of New York in 1873 and the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1888.[2] He worked as a homeopath and hydrotherapist for twenty-five years.[3] He married Eunice C. Lippincott in 1872. They had three daughters and two sons.[1] In 1876, he established the Walter Sanitarium in Walter's Park, Pennsylvania.[4] His book Vital Science makes frequent reference to Biblical literature. Walter was a member of the Society of Friends.[1]

Walter authored the natural hygiene book The Exact Science of Health, in 1903.[5] It was negatively reviewed in medical journals.[5][6][7][8] The book espoused fasting, homeopathic medicine and vitalism.[5] Walter opposed conventional medicine and believed that disease could be cured by people avoiding food and flushing the bowel several times a day. He was an early advocate of colon cleansing. A review in the International Medical Magazine commented that "there are some valuable hygienic suggestions in the book, but they are buried among a mass of platitudes and other unscientific extraneous matter."[5] A review in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences noted that it "bristles with scientific inaccuracies and still more mischievous perversions and misinterpretations of facts."[7] Walter was criticized for not keeping up to date with the progress of modern medical science.[9]

Walter died on October 26, 1921 in Reading, Pennsylvania.[10]

Selected publications

• Vital Science Based Upon Life's Great Law: The Analogue of Gravitation (1899)
• The Exact Science of Health (1903)
• The Power That Cures (The New England Medical Gazette, 1914)

See also

• Susanna Way Dodds

References

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