Elmer Lee

Elmer Lee (1856 to 1945) was an American physician, magazine editor, and advocate of natural hygiene and vegetarianism. He founded and edited the health magazine Health Culture, which promoted diet reform and plant-based foods. Lee also worked as a naturopath, wrote on the treatment of disease and on diet, and patented a liquid-soap dispenser. He promoted what he called the hygienic system. The entry records his publishing and advocacy as part of the history of natural hygiene and naturopathic ideas in the United States, and nothing in it is medical advice or a recommendation to follow any diet.