This'll put you off your cornflakes

While you are eating your breakfast cereal you could do worse than read this article about Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, nineteenth-century American doctor and patron saint of cornflakes.

He appears to have been very much occupied with the twin evils of bowels and masturbation, advocating all sorts of terrible things to be done to one's genitals to prevent the latter, and the consumption of large quantities of cornflakes to improve the former.

The poor man was clearly obsessed and should have been taken off to a quiet room for a lie down. With his foreskin wired together at the tip, as he suggested, of course.