Our Health Almanac by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 20, 1874

Our Health Almanac.

By Editor

The friends of health reform will be glad to know that the Hygienic Family Almanac for 1875 is now ready. It has fifty-two large, fair, well-executed pages, and contains most valuable reading on the subject of health, to the amount of a thirty-two page tract, besides that which usually pertains to an almanac. It is just the thing to place at the fireside of 25,000 families. Nothing can possibly be better to hand to, or send by mail to, your friends, before whom you wish to let shine rays of light preparatory to their more full investigation of the great health subject.

The Sanitarium for each month in the whole year, which gives special directions relative to food, clothing, cleanliness of person, premises, &c., is invaluable. It has three pages of recipes for cooking, which make it almost a complete kitchen guide; and more than a page on bathing, which goes far in giving a system of home treatment. Besides these, the Almanac contains able articles on the following subjects:—

What Health Reform Is Not—What Health Reform Is—Thirty Shots at Tobacco-Using—A Live Hog Examined—Why Tea and Coffee Are Unwholesome Beverages—Is It Better?—The Terrible Trichinæ—Hygiene of the Hair—Keep Clean.

Besides the Calendar for each of the twelve months, the Sanitarium for each month, and the articles indicated by the above-given titles, there are five pages of advertisements of the Western Health Reform Institute, located at Battle Creek, Mich., the HEALTH REFORMER, Catalogue of Health Books published at the REFORMER Office, Kedzie Water Filter, the Fountain Syringe, Skirt Supporter, Honeywell's Crackers, and Schumacher's staples of hygienic living.

For several years the publishers of the HEALTH REFORMER and managers of the “Health Reform Institute,” have meditated the publication of a series of annual calendars; but the constant press of more urgent matters has made the enterprise impracticable until the present, so that we now present the first of this long-contemplated series. For many years the “Family Almanac” has been a favorite and very efficient means through which quacks and charlatans have sought to place before the public deceptive advertisements of their wares and nostrums. Such is in no sense the object of the present publication. Its primary design is to call the attention of the people to a subject the importance of which is hardly susceptible of overestimation; viz., that of health reform. The object of this publication being, as before remarked, the promulgation of reformatory ideas, chiefly pertaining to health, we feel no hesitation in calling upon the friends of the cause everywhere to assist in its extensive circulation.

Single copies sent by mail, 10 cents; fifteen copies for $1.00. Special terms to agents and canvassers.

Address, HEALTH REFORMER,\nBattle Creek, Mich.