The Laws of Life

The Laws of Life: A Family Health Journal / Woman’s Health Journal. Ed. Harriet N. Austin & James Caleb Jackson. Dansville, N.Y.: Sanatorium Publishing Company, 1860-1894. 

The journal continues The Letter Box, a journal co-edited by Austin and Jackson and, like the predeccessor, it focuses on the issues of hydrotherapy and dress reform. Harriet Newell Austin, graduated from the American Hydropathic Institute, established by Thomas Low Nichols and Mary Gove Nichols in 1851. While working as a physician at a water cure sanitarium in Owasco, New York she formed a professional relationship with James Caleb Jackson, who ran the Glen Haven Water Cure where Austin joined him to manage the treatment of female patients. With Jackson, she was founder of the National Dress Reform Association in 1856.

 

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