Henry Valentine Knaggs

14 February 1859 – 11 July 1954

Born on St Valentine's day in St Pancras, London, the son of Henry Guard Knaggs (q.v.). Studied at University College (LSA and MRCS 1881) and the University of Edinburgh. Worked as a doctor with the Peninsula and Orient Steamship Company, then at Boscombe Infirmary. Then general practitioner from 1883 in north London. Author of many pamphlets etc on health matters, mostly harmless.

• Pamphlets
• Potatoes as food and medicine
• Rheumatism and other Allied Ailments - Short Chapters on Rheumatism , The Uric Acid Theory of Disease, Rheumatic Fever and Arthritis
• The truth about vaccination
• The Truth About Vaccination; the Nature and Origin of Vaccine Lymph, and the Teachings of the new Bacteriology
• A Common Stomach Trouble
• A First Aid to Internal Cleanliness
• A short treatise on the cure of Diphtheria by ... small doses of sulphur
• An Epitome of the “Nature Cure” System of Medicine
• Basic Diagnosis and Reconstructive Treatment
• Blood and Superman
• Consumption and Tomorrow