author
B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis
b. 1851
A Canadian-born doctor who practiced in Chicago, he wrote practical household and health books that reached a wide popular audience in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
2 Audiobooks
Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis, J. L. (James Lawrence) Nichols
Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis, J. L. (James Lawrence) Nichols
About the author
Benjamin Grant Jefferis (1851–1929) was a physician and author best known for popular health and domestic reference books. Library and public-domain records identify him as B. G. Jefferis, and list works including The Household Guide and Searchlights on Health, the latter written with J. L. Nichols.
Sources found during research describe him as Canadian-born, with a medical career in Chicago. His books were aimed at general readers rather than specialists, covering family health, home care, marriage, and moral instruction in the style of the period.
Today, Jefferis is mainly remembered through reprints and digital archives of those widely circulated guides. Some of the language and ideas in his works reflect their era, but they remain useful as windows into everyday medical advice and social values of the time.