The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s, and agricultural journals. He alsopublished The Sexual Organism, and its HealthfulManagement (Dansville, 1861); Consumption:How to Prevent It, and How to Cure It (1863);How to T
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s, and agricultural journals. He alsopublished The Sexual Organism, and its HealthfulManagement (Dansville, 1861); Consumption:How to Prevent It, and How to Cure It (1863);How to Treat the Sick without Medicine (1870);American Womanhood: Its Peculiarities and itsNecessities (1870); The Training of Children(1873); The Debilities of Our Boys (1873); Christ as a Physician (1878); Morning Watches (1883), and several monographs. He was also thefounder, in 1859, and for a long time the editor ofa health journal, The Laws of Life, the oldestpaper of its class in the world, and although is in the eighty-third year of his life, he isstill a contributor to its columns. Politically he wasa Jacksonian democrat and cast his first vote forGen. Andrew Jackson in 1833; but the followmgyear he severed his connection with the party becauseof its attitude on the slavery question. He has alwaysbeen an advocate for woman suffrage and a workerboth on the platform and with his pen, in its 82 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA
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