Nichols, Thomas Low

Nichols, Thomas Low

(1815–1901) dietitian, author, reformer; born in Orford, N.H. As a journalist and prolific author he promoted health foods, free love, and spiritualism, among other reforms. After earning a medical qualification (1850) he joined his wife, physician Mary Grove Nichols, in training hydropathic physicians. They lived in England and Europe after 1861.