Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

the little company of 12 members in the great city
of Chicago.
Since most medical works are large and
expensive, it was decided that a small book should
be prepared, compiled from the larger works,
containing those things essential to aid the common
reader in line with the testimony given us. The
director of the Health Reform Institute requested
me to prepare the manuscript with the
understanding that he would carefully examine and
criticize it.
In between state conferences and various board
meetings, it took one year to complete it. It was
entitled Home Handbook of Health and totalled
228 pages. An edition of 3,000 was printed, bound
in cloth, and sold for $.75 a copy.
On June 24, 1867, after the birth of a daughter,
my wife was taken with a congestive chill, and
within an hour from the birth of the child she was
dead. Thus suddenly was I separated from her to
whom I had been happily united for sixteen and
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