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Susanna Way Dodds (November 10, 1830 – January 20, 1911) was an American physician, hydrotherapist and natural hygiene proponent.

Susanna Way Dodds
Born	(1830-11-10)November 10, 1830 Randolph County, Indiana, United States
Died	January 20, 1911(1911-01-20) (aged 80) Long Beach, California, United States
Occupation	Physician, writer

Biography

Dodds was born in Randolph County, near Richmond, Indiana.[1] She was a vegetarian and advocate of women's rights.[2] Dodds was the fourth woman in America to become a physician.[2] In 1864, she graduated from Russell T. Trall's New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College.[2] Dodds practiced medicine in St. Louis from 1886-1909.[3]

Dodds' sister-in-law Mary was also a physician. Dodds and her husband Andrew espoused a hygienic method of treating disease.[4] In 1878, Dodds and her sister opened a sanitarium, the Dodds' Hygeian Home.[4][5] In 1887, they established the Hygienic College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Louis, Missouri.[2][4] They did not use any drugs except in cases for relieving pain.[6] They focused on "natural methods of treatment: diet, exercise, massage, electricity and hydrotherapy in all of its manifold applications".[4] Dodds proposed a strict hygienic vegetarian diet which forbid the consumption of baking powder, meat, milk, soda, spices and sweeteners.[4] She published the magazine, The Sanitarian.[7]

Dodds was Vice-President of the Vegetarian Society of America.[8] Natural hygienist Herbert M. Shelton was influenced by Dodds.[4]

Death

Dodds died on January 20, 1911, from senile debility at Long Beach, California.[9] After Dodds died in 1911, her sister continued to manage the Hygienic College until she sold it in 1912.[4]

Publications

• The Diet Question (1884)
• Health in the Household: Or, Hygienic Cookery (1891)
• Race Culture: Mother and Child (1910)
• Drugless Medicine: Hygeiotherapy (1915)

References

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