Prophetess of Health

A Study of Ellen G. White

By: Ronald L. Numbers

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Paperback | 1 July 2008 | Edition Number 3

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Respected historian of science Ronald Numbers here examines one of the most influential, yet least examined, religious leaders of the mid-nineteenth century -- Ellen G. White, the enigmatic visionary who founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Numbers scrutinizes White's life (1827-1915), from her teenage visions and testimonies to her extensive advice on health reform, which influenced the direction of the church she founded. This third edition features a new introduction and two key documents that shed further light on White -- transcripts of the trial of Elder I. Dammon in 1845 and the proceedings of the secret Bible Conferences in 1919.

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Spectrum
"An excellent, meticulously documented social history, whose author is an expert intellectual detective. . . When one reads about her success in starting a worldwide system of medical missions and hospitals, and the continuing services performed by the Adventist groups, one is astonished again that it took so long for Ellen G. White to be written about by an able and dispassionate biographer."

American History Review
"Ronald L. Numbers has written an excellent case study in the affinity between unorthodox religion and heterodox medicine."

Library Journal
"The author gives an honest, unbiased account of the contradictions and possible plagiarism in White's writings, the vacillation of her methods, the revelries among the men who ran the medical institute, and the gullibility of the public regarding health. An informative work on one aspect of American medical history."

Christianity Today
"Prophetess of Health treats with considerable documentation the health writings of the Adventist leader."

The Christian Century
"Ellen G. White as much as anyone is the founder of modern Seventh-day Adventism, and deserves to be as well known as, say, Mary Baker Eddy. For some reason or other she has generally escaped scrutiny. Too bad, for her story as prophetess, health reformer, and religious leader is rarely matched in American religious annals, and Ronald Numbers is the man equipped to tell it. . . The intention of the book is not muckraking but the setting right of accounts."

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. x
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xxvi
Preface to the First Edition	p. xxx
Introduction: The Historian as Heretic	p. 1
A Prophetess Is Born	p. 43
In Sickness and in Health	p. 76
The Health Reformers	p. 95
Dansville Days	p. 127
The Western Health Reform Institute	p. 156
Short Skirts and Sex	p. 184
Whatsoever Ye Eat or Drink	p. 219
Fighting the Good Fight	p. 239
Afterword: Ellen White on the Mind and the Mind of Ellen White	p. 267
Physical and Psychological Experiences of Ellen G. White: Related in Her Own Words	p. 291
The 1864 Dansville Visit	p. 320
The Trial of Elder I. Dammon	p. 326
The Secret 1919 Bible Conferences	p. 344
Index	p. 402
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