The California Homeopath
Journal of the California Homeopathic Medical Society

Charles (“Boss”) Kettering (1876–1958) served as vice president of General Motors, and was widely recognized as the greatest American inventor and engineer since Thomas Edison. He held more than 300 patents. Some of his inventions included the all-electric starting ignition, ethyl gasoline, and Duco paint (trade name of a lacquer paint used on cars). He also started the Delco Company (which manufactures car batteries and which GM purchased).

Early in his career, Kettering worked for National Cash Register, which maintained a clinic for employees that was staffed by homeopathic doctors. The company’s newsletter often provided health tips on such topics as the necessity of physical fitness, the importance of thorough chewing of the food (“Fletcherism”), the usefulness of fasting, the value of hydrotherapy, and the benefits of health sanitariums like the Battle Creek Sanitarium created by Dr. J. H. Kellogg (the man who also created the famous cereal company).

Kettering publicly acknowledged the health benefits he received due to the skills of Thomas Addison (T. A.) McCann, MD (1858–1943), his homeopathic physician from Dayton, Ohio (Enstam, 1943, 489).

By Dana Ullman

DANA ULLMAN, MPH, is one of America's leading advocates for homeopathy. He has authored 10 books, including The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, Homeopathy A-Z, Homeopathic Medicines for Children and Infants, Discovering Homeopathy, and (the best-selling) Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines (with Stephen Cummings, MD).

He is the founder of Homeopathic Educational Services (www.homeopathic.com), America's leading resource center for homeopathic books, tapes, medicines, software, and correspondence courses. Homeopathic Educational Services has co-published over 35 books on homeopathy with North Atlantic Books.

Dana writes a regular column for the wildly popular website, www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-ullman