C. E. (Charles Edward) Page

Born in Maine in 1840, Charles Edward Page was an American physician whose writing focused on health, hygiene, and non-drug approaches to illness. He is closely associated with hydrotherapy and the natural hygiene movement, and he published practical health manuals aimed at general readers as well as patients.

Among his best-known works is The Natural Cure of Consumption, Constipation, Bright's Disease, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Colds (Fevers), Etc., first published in the 1880s. His books reflect a wider 19th-century interest in self-help medicine, diet, bathing cures, and preventive health.

Page's ideas were influential in some reform circles, though parts of his advocacy were controversial, including his opposition to vaccination. He died in 1925, and today his writings are mainly remembered as part of the history of alternative medicine and American health reform.