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Periodical: The Indian Naturopath

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Indian Naturopath, The.
The Official Organ and Gazette of The Indian Naturopathic Association.
For Health -- Physical Mental & Spiritual
1919 Monthly
Bezwada, India.
Language: English.
Editor: Dr. Sarma K. Lakshman, B.A., B.L, N.D.; Prof. Putcha Venkatramaiah, et al..
Succeeds: Prakriti (1919)
1/1, August 1919-19/2, December 1948.
Rs.1-8-0, S. 3, $1.00 a year, 8-16 pp.

This was the first English-language journal devoted to Naturopathy. It was started in 1919 as a supplement to the Telegu journal Prakriti and then after a hiatus begun again in 1927, in conjunction with the Calcutta Nature Healer, which ceased in 1929. It again began publishing in August 1931 and lasted until 1948. The journal carried articles by many Indian practitioners and excerpts from the likes of Benedict Lust, Edmund Szekeley, Edward Albee, Henry Lindlahr, Sebastian Kneipp, and others, whose work was combined with Indian methods like Ayurveda.

Other Sources:
Issues:Indian Naturopath V10 N10 Oct 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N11 Nov 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N12 Dec 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N1 Jan 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N2 Feb 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N3 Mar 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N5 May 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N6 Jun 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N7 Jul 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N8 Aug 1939
Indian Naturopath V10 N9 Sep 1939
Indian Naturopath V11 N10 Oct 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N11 Nov 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N12 Dec 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N1 Jan 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N2 Feb 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N3 Mar 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N4 Apr 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N5 May 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N6 Jun 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N7 Jul 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N8 Aug 1940
Indian Naturopath V11 N9 Sep 1940
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Indian Naturopath was a nature-cure journal advancing drugless healing on the subcontinent: fasting and dietetic treatment, hygiene and physical culture, vegetarianism, and vigorous campaigning against vaccination and vivisection, all conducted under the banner of obedience to the laws of health. What distinguishes it from its Western counterparts is its politics. Its pages argue for swaraj and for a government that respects individual liberty and the development of the human personality; a conference resolution asks the provincial administration to maintain village gardens for public health and to promote hand-ground rice. Nature-cure here is a nationalist programme as much as a therapeutic one, the village and its diet set against an imported medical apparatus. A light borrowing from mind-cure vocabulary connects the journal to the wider drugless-healing literature, but its substance is medical-reformist and political rather than metaphysical, and it belongs with the health-reform and diet-reform strand of the archive.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Health Reform and Alternative Medicine | Vegetarianism and Diet Reform