A snobbish wife and her henpecked husband travel to Dr. Kellogg's spa in turn-of-the-century Battle Creek, where the youth-crazed affluent succumb to quackery. By the author of East is East. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
PART I: DIAGNOSIS
1. Of Steak and Sin
2. Scavengers of the Sea
3. Sears' White Star Liquor Cure
4. Father to All, Father to None
5. The Civilized Bowel
6. The Biggest Little City in the U.S.A
7. Symptomitis
8. Changing the Flora
9. Per-Fo
10. A Thankful Bird
PART II: THERAPEUSIS
1. 'Tis the Season
2. The Baser Appetites
3. Cold in the Middle
4. The Advertising Game
5. Kellogg's Kink
6. From Humble Beginnings
7. Organized Rest Without Ennui
8. Groundhog Day
PART III: PROGNOSIS
1. Question, Questions, Questions
2. The Letter and the Note
3. Freikorper Kultur
4. Rigid Control and Other Matters
5. The Per-Fo Factory
6. A Sword of Fire
7. Goguac Lake
8. The Fatal Luncheon
9. Fireworks
10. Decoration Day
CODA
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