The Healthian: A Journal of Human Physiology, Diet, and Regimen

Includes the “Pythagorean Sayings” by A. Bronson Alcott, and frequently links between veganism and slavery, dress reform, Temperance, and war. In addition to Bronson Alcott, Henry Wright, William Strange, J. Cleave, and Vincent Torres have all been associated with this journal, either as publishers or contributors. The editor was likely William Horsell, a prominent veg*n / hydropathist who also published Asenath Nicholson's vegan cookbook in the UK (https://ivu.org/history/vegetarian.html). The journal clearly had links to Alcott and the American Transcendentalists: The Dial is advertised in several issues and a text by William Alcott is reviewed in No. 11. The authorship of the editorials is unattributed.

"The Healthian was a 'journal of human physiology, diet, and regimen' that was written by the great thinkers living in the Alcott House. The Alcott House was created in London, England, and was based on the principles and philosophies which American Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott taught at his most famous teaching experiment, Temple School. In 1841 the students began to print pamphlets called The Healthian, which would eventually be consolidated into an annual volume. The writings matched Alcott's vegetarian principles and advocated for the animal-free lifestyle that we know today as 'vegan' " (https://jaa12j.omeka.net/items/show/12). The journal was succeeded by The New Age and Concordium Gazette.

 

 

 

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