Sydney Henning Belfrage
Sydney Henning Belfrage | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 July 1871 |
| Died | 31 May 1950 (aged 78) |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, writer |
| Children | Cedric Belfrage, Bruce Belfrage, Douglas Henning Belfrage |
| Relatives | Nicolas Belfrage (grandson) Julian Rochfort Belfrage (grandson) Sally Belfrage (granddaughter) Ixta Belfrage (great granddaughter) Beatriz Belfrage (great granddaughter) |
Sydney Henning Belfrage (21 July 1871 – 31 May 1950) M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., was an English physician and writer.[1] He established a sizable general practice, served as the Divorce Registry's medical inspector, and was regarded as an authority on the law of nullity.[1]
Life
[edit]Belfrage was born on 21 July 1871 in Lambeth.[2][3] He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, University College Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital.[3] He obtained his M.D. in 1900.[2]
Belfrage married Frances Grace Powley on 7 September 1899 at Purley, London.[3][4] He was a member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, a leading member of the New Health Society and physician to Virginia Woolf.[2][5][6] He authored the book What's Best to Eat? which was dedicated to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane.[7]
In 1926, Belfrage was Honorary Medical Secretary of the New Health Society.[8]
Vegetarianism
[edit]Belfrage lectured on the benefits of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.[9][10] George Bernard Shaw attended his lecture "Diet and Race" in 1934.[10] Belfrage argued that eating vegetables alone was not good enough and that the building material for the body should come from a non-flesh diet that also contains eggs and milk.[11] He attended the 6th World Vegetarian Congress in 1926.[12]
Selected publications
[edit]- What's Best to Eat (with a foreword by Elmer McCollum, 1926)[7][13]
- The A.B.C. of Food (1929)[14]
- Facts About Food (1938)[15]
- Illness (1938)[16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Obituary in The Times, DR S. H. BELFRAGE, June 1, 1950, p.9
- ^ a b c Merchant Taylors' School Register, 1851-1920. Merchant's Taylors' Company, 1923. p. 160
- ^ a b c Who Was Who: A Companion to Who's Who. A. & C. Black, 1967. p. 82
- ^ http://project-purley.net/R200275.pdf, p.57
- ^ Neswald, Elizabeth; Smith, David F; Thoms, Ulrike. (2017). Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices. University of Rochester Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-58046-576-2
- ^ Licence, Amy (15 May 2015). Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445645797 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Notes On Books". The British Medical Journal. 1 (3443): 20. 1927. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3443.20. S2CID 220001110.
- ^ "Human-Body as Motor-Car". The Daily Mirror. 22 March 1926. p. 21. (subscription required)
- ^ "Vegetarianism: Doctor Discusses Some of the Principles Involved". The Shields Daily News. 17 December 1930. p. 4. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "G.B.S. and his Diet". The Evening News. 23 August 1934. p. 6. (subscription required)
- ^ "How to Enjoy Good Health: Dr. S. Henning Belfrage's Advice". Croydon Times. 26 October 1929. p. 1. (subscription required)
- ^ "6th World Vegetarian Congress 1926". International Vegetarian Union. 2024. Archived from the original on 7 November 2024.
- ^ Wood, Betha M. (1927). "What's Best to Eat by S. Henning Belfrage". The American Journal of Nursing. 27 (8): 701–702.
- ^ BELFRAGE, Sydney Henning (3 July 1929). The A.B.C. of Food. Faber & Faber. OCLC 557799188 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ Belfrage, Sydney Henning (3 July 1938). Facts about food. Oxford Univ. Press. OCLC 3266926 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ "Illness: Its Story and Some Common Symptoms, a Guide for the Layman". The New England Journal of Medicine. 218: 1124. 1938.