Sylvester Graham and the Popular Health Movement, 1830-1870

secondary literature · 1931

type:secondary literature

year:1931

citation:Shryock RH. 'Sylvester Graham and the Popular Health Movement, 1830-1870.' Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 1931;18(2):172-183. doi:10.2307/1893378.

LINK

https://doi.org/10.2307/1893378

SUMMARY

A 1931 scholarly article by historian Richard H. Shryock (Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 172-183, DOI 10.2307/1893378, confirmed via Crossref) tracing Graham's 1830 start as a temperance lecturer, his rise to fame during the 1832 cholera epidemic, and the broader popular-health movement his career helped launch. The archive's principal source for Graham's career timeline. Metadata confirmed against the Crossref record.

NOTES

A 1931 academic history article by Richard H. Shryock in the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, one of the earliest scholarly treatments of Sylvester Graham and the wider popular-health movement he helped found. It documents Graham’s 1830 appointment as a lecturing agent for the Pennsylvania Temperance Society, his shift from temperance to a comprehensive dietary and hygienic doctrine, and the surge in his public following during the 1832 cholera epidemic in New York City. The archive cites it as the principal source for Graham’s career timeline and his relationship to the broader nineteenth-century health-reform movement. Bibliographic metadata (volume 18, issue 2, pages 172-183, 1931, DOI 10.2307/1893378) was confirmed directly against the Crossref record.