1/1, 1863-April 1881.

This has a long and complicated history in the fringe movements of the later nineteenth century. It began in 1845 as Fowler & Wells' Water Cure Journal and Herald of Reforms; it then became The Water Cure Journal: A Guide to Health Devoted to Physiology, Hydropathy and the Laws of Life; then The Hygienic Teacher and Water Cure Journal; and then, after Fowler & Wells sold the journal to Russell T. Trall, it became The Herald of Health and Water Cure Journal in 1863, then simply the Herald of Health. In 1866 it took the titles given above and then ended up as The Herald of Health: Devoted to the Culture of Body and Mind in 1873. Holbrook (1831-1902) was the cornerstone of much of the hygiene, health and physical culture fads of the time and his ideas easily made the transition to New Thought, "Natural Living" and eugenics. The name of the journal was adopted by T.L. Nichols for his very similarly intentioned journal in London. Advertised in "Spiritual and Miscellaneous Periodicals for Sale at this Office," Banner of Light (August 22, 1874): 5. The journal advocated something called "Physiological Christianity" but in a form easily congenial to spiritualists.