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He was born on October 13, 1823 at Scott, New York, United States, the son of Nathan and Lucretia (Babcock) Salisbury, both of English colonial ancestry.
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He was born on October 13, 1823 at Scott, New York, United States, the son of Nathan and Lucretia (Babcock) Salisbury, both of English colonial ancestry.
After attending Homer Academy near his birthplace, he received the degree of bachelor of natural science from Rensselaer Institute of Troy, N. Y. , in 1846, his medical degree from Albany Medical College in 1850, and the degree of M. A. from Union College in 1852.
Appointed assistant chemist of the New York state geological survey at Albany in 1846, he became chief chemist in 1849. In 1851-52 he also lectured on elementary and applied chemistry at the state normal school. During this period he wrote Anatomy and Histology of Plants (1848) and History and Chemical Investigations of Maize (1849), the latter a voluminous pamphlet issued by the state agricultural society. Although he later settled at Newark, Ohio, for practice, his chief interest was still in research.
In addition to Ancient Earth and Rock-Writing (1863), a book on the mound builders written in collaboration with his brother, C. B. Salisbury, and such books as An Account of Some Experiments and Observations on the Influence of Poisons and Medicinal Agents upon Plants (1854), Some Experiments on Poisoning with Vegetable Alkaloids (1862), Experiments Connected with the Discovery of Cholesterin and Seroline (1863), and Histology and Anatomy of the Spleen (1866), his early work included the analysis of various fruits and vegetables and, in the field of phytopathology, a book on Blight in Apple, Pear, and Quince Trees and Decay of their Fruit (1863).
In 1862 he wrote an article (American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July 1862) attributing measles in the army camps to fungi found on straw, and a second (Ibid. , October 1862) on experimental inoculation with straw fungi for prevention of the disease. Later he identified certain "algoid vegetations" as the causative agents in malaria, syphilis, gonorrhea, variola, vaccinia, and typhoid fever, and reported these investigations in detail in New Algoid Vegetations (1868) and Microscopic Examinations of Blood (1868). Similarly, in Original Investigations in Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever (1882), he affirmed that the two diseases were nearly related and that both were due to what he called "mucor malignans, " a fungus he found in the blood and excretions of patients.
He was then advocating the preponderant influence of food and drink in the production of disease, including in his list abnormal growths and mental alienation. He wrote two books in support of this idea, Brief Statement of the So-Called "Salisbury Plans" of Treating by Alimentation (1887) and Relation of Alimentation and Disease (1888).
Meanwhile he had assisted in the organization of the Charity Hospital Medical School in Cleveland, where from 1864 to 1866 he was professor of physiology, histology, and pathology. From about 1880 he lived in New York City.
He died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage at his summer home in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.
He the inventor of the Salisbury steak. Salisbury was one of the earliest health food faddists and taught that diet was the main determinant of health. His famous works: Brief Statement of the So-Called "Salisbury Plans" of Treating by Alimentation (1887) and Relation of Alimentation and Disease. A final estimate of his work marks him as an able microscopist and a painstaking investigator; his articles, which received serious consideration when published, are scholarly and well illustrated with charts. Of all his researches those in medicine are the least useful, although a little later he might have achieved world fame through them.
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He believed vegetables and starchy foods produced poisonous substances in the digestive system which were responsible for heart disease, tumors, mental illness and tuberculosis. He believed that human dentition demonstrated that humans were meant to eat meat, and sought to limit vegetables, fruit, starches, and fats to one-third of the diet.
He had been married on June 26, 1860, to Clara Brasee of Lancaster, Ohio, daughter of John T. Brasee.
