Physianthropy; or the Home Cure and Eradication of Disease

WALLACE, Mrs C. Leigh Hunt

Published by Mrs C. H. L. Wallace, London

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Published: n.d. [c1885] [British Library]. DESCRIPTION: Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt and black embossed decoration to front and spine. Bevelled boards. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Minor faint mark to rear cloth. Owner has glued in an article referring to eating one meal per week to ffep. Title page has minor spotting. One pen line to page margin. At the rear of the book is a glued in page advertising C. L. H. Wallace's book 366 Menus. Pages are bound tightly. DJ Condition: Na Pages [viii], 120. Size: 16mo 18.5cm by 12cm. AUTHOR: Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace (born Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt; 1854 - 16 March 1927) was an English healer and writer on health, spiritualism and food reform. She was an entrepreneur and activist for vegetarianism, as well as an advocate for temperance and anti-vaccination. Wallace worked as a lay healer, asserting that spiritual faith and purity were the best means of curing illness. She was trained by her future husband Joseph Wallace, whom she met at a phrenological meeting organized by James Burns. They married in 1878; the couple had seven children. Wallace set up her own practice in London, which employed several assistants; patients were treated with a combination of dietary control, hydrotherapy, physical manipulation, and mesmerism. In 1877, Wallace went on a national lecture tour, where he spoke at several spiritualist societies. She completed a novel in 1879, Visibility Invisible and Invisibility Visible, which was serialized by James Burns. In 1890, Wallace assumed ownership of T. L. Nicholss newspaper, Herald of Health; she later became its editor. BOOK RESUME: Wallace sets out some of the means to treat… any acute or chronic diseases which may threaten the life. of those around you.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Physianthropy; or the Home Cure and Eradication of Disease
• Publisher: Mrs C. H. L. Wallace, London
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Na