New book explores relationship of Kellogg brothers

It couldn't have been easy being John Harvey Kellogg's little brother.

"Even as boys, it was understood that John was their mother's favorite child and the family's brightest star while Will was considered to be slow, at best," medical historian Howard Markel writes in a new book on the Kellogg brothers and their tumultuous relationship.

John Harvey Kellogg, the elder brother, ensured that Will's "daily childhood life was a living hell," relating his every indiscretion to their strict father and adding punches and verbal humiliation for good measure.

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