the originator and the editor of the Journal of Public Health and Sanitary Review (1855). He contributed many articles, signed and unsigned, to The Lancet, The Medical Times and The Gazette. Family He married, on 21 February 1857, Mary J. Smith of Mortlake, by whom he left two surviving sons and one daughter. His son Aubrey married the writer and philanthropist Jerusha Davidson Richardson. Works Non-fiction (1858). The Cause of the Coagulation of the Blood. (1876). On Alcohol. (1876). Diseases of Modern Life. (1876). Hygeia, a City of Health. (1877). The Future of Sanitary Science. (1878). Health and Life. (1878). Total Abstinence. (1882). Dialogues on Drink. (1882). Diseases of Modern Life. (1884). On the Healthy Manufacture of Bread. (1884). Brief Notes for Temperance Teachers. (1884). The Field of Disease. (1887). The Commonhealth. (1887). Public School Temperance. (1891). Foods for Man: Animal and Vegetable: A Comparison. (1891). Thomas Sopwith. (1896). Biological Experimentation: Its Function and Limits. (1897). Vita Medica: Chapters of a Medical Life and Work. (1900). Disciples of Aesculapius. Fiction (1888). The Son of a Star: A Romance of the Second Century. Selected articles (1880). "Health Through Education," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCXLVI, pp. 288–303. (1880). "Dress in Relation to Health," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCXLVI, pp. 469–488. (1881). "A First Electrician," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCLI, pp. 460–480. (1882). "Race and Life on English Soil," The Eclectic Magazine 36, pp. 606–621. (1886). "Woman's Work in Creation," Longman's Magazine 8, pp. 604–619. Miscellany (1888). "Preface," to The Autobiography of George Harris. London: Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd. (1889). "The Art of Embalming," in Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs. New York: William Wood & Company. (1895). "Introduction," to A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle, by Frances Elizabeth Willard. London: Hutchinson & Co. References Attribution Further reading Ackerknecht, E. H. (1988). "Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson and the Jews", Gesnerus 45 (3–4), 317–21. MacNalty, Arthur Salusbury (1950). A Biography of Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson. London: Harvey & Blythe. External links Works by Benjamin Ward Richardson, at Hathi Trust Works by Benjamin Ward Richardson, at JSTOR Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828–1896) 1828 births 1896 deaths 19th-century British male writers 19th-century English medical doctors Alumni of the University of St Andrews British non-fiction writers English temperance activists Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Knights Bachelor Members of the London