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From Pat Deveney's database:
Herald of Health, The.
A Monthly Journal of Sanitary and Social Science.
Other titles: The Penny Herald of Health (1878)
1874?--1916 Monthly, quarterly (1912-1916)
London, England.
Language: English.
Editor: Dr. T.L. Nichols (to 1886); C.W. Forward (1886-1890); C.L. Hunt Wallace (from 1888).
Publisher: Nichols & Co. / The Co-Operative Sanitary Company (Limited).
Succeeds: Nichols' Monthly; Nichols' Journal
1/1, 1874 (?)-1916.
One penny a copy, 12 pp. This was the last journal published by Thomas Low Nichols (1815-1901) and his wife Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols (1810-1884), who between them embraced every reform and "-ism" that swept through the second half of the nineteenth century: women's rights, magnetism, abolition, temperance, food and health reform, clothing reform, hydrotherapy, Christian Socialism, vegetarianism, universal suffrage, spiritualism, libertarianism and free love, etc., etc., all capped by the Nichols' conversion to Catholicism. This journal concentrated on their health-related interests (including, after 1879, advertisements for the Nichols' vegetarian Alpha Restaurant in London), and, after T.L. Nichols withdrew as editor in 1886, was devoted almost exclusively to health. Nichols acknowledged that the "name Herald of Health is borrowed from an excellent monthly edited by Dr. Holbrook, of New York, a worthy worker in the same good cause." Even after the appearance of this journal, Nichols continued to contribute to Holbrook's journal of the same name and to advertise his "Dr. Nichols' Pocket Swimming Life-Preserver" in it. Noted in the Banner of Light, September 28, 1889, and in C. Kiesewetter, Geschichte des neueren Occultismus (1891), 459. Advertised in the Herald of Health, New York, 1874.
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The Herald of Health is a hygienic-reform monthly in the Thomas Low Nichols tradition, preaching health through diet, water cure, fresh air and temperate living rather than drugs. Its pages are dense with vegetarian and dietetic advocacy, hydropathic method, and a moral-improvement register that ties bodily reform to frugal, self-disciplined Christian living. Period physiology surfaces in passing — the phrenology of Gall, the 'faculties' of the reform-science world — but always in service of the hygienic program rather than as an occult or metaphysical system. It belongs squarely with the nineteenth-century health-reform press, cross-listing most naturally with vegetarianism and diet reform.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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