far the more numerous are his books and pamphlets for the general public. They are mostly on various aspects of personal health and diet, and have been described as "mostly harmless." Examples are "Rheumatism and Allied Ailments," "The Cleansing Saline Fast," "The Misunderstood Microbe", "How to Prevent Cancer" and "Potatoes as Food and Medicine" (the last one still in print). His ideas He was a naturopath and teetotaling vegetarian, an advocate of natural hygiene, and a long-time member of the National Anti-Vaccination League. He is reported as saying that during the last fifty years as a physician he never prescribed a single drug. He preferred raw foods to cooked ones, and plain water to milk and beverages such as tea and coffee. He was an advocate of exercise and shunned alcohol. Knaggs was influenced by Antoine Béchamp and believed that germs were not the cause of disease but the products of tissue breakdown. He held pseudoscientific and vitalistic ideas. An article in the Medical History journal noted that Knaggs believed that the "human body took in three streams of "solar life essence", as light, as air, and as food and water: and that uncooked vegetables were "fully charged with magnetism" drawn from sun, earth and water." His vitalistic ideas were ridiculed in the British Medical Journal as unscientific. Knaggs authored The Story of Vitamins, in 1929. It is alleged that he investigated vitamins in 1910 before Casimir Funk and Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovered them. Knaggs was influenced by Theosophy. He stated that his book Blood and Superman "to a large extent [is] based on Theosophical teaching." His death He died at the age of 95, on 11 July 1954. In his will, he stipulated that his body was to be cremated, the ashes to be scattered, and that there should be no flowers, tombstone or other memorial. He left his furniture and personal effects to his "friend" Mrs Lily Colburn (who shared his address), and the rest of his estate to be divided equally between his wife (who died in 1962) and this "friend." The Times obituary described him as "a man of great physical courage" who "had the gift of making little fuss aout the details of life". Saying that he had lived to see many of his originally controversial views on diet and hygiene generally accepted, it concluded that "his loss will be deeply regretted by the thousands