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.
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. BL.

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