author
John A. (John Alexander) Miller
Best remembered for a late-19th-century guide to women’s health, this little-known writer is linked to a book that mixed medical advice, home treatment, and popular health education for its era.
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Femina, A Work for Every Woman
by John A. (John Alexander) Miller
About the author
John A. Miller, identified by the Library of Congress as John A. (John Alexander) Miller, is the author of Femina, a Work for Every Woman. The Library of Congress records the 1893 San Francisco edition and notes that an earlier first edition appeared in 1891 under the title Home Treatment for Diseases of Women.
His surviving public profile is quite limited, and the available sources found here say far more about the book than about the man himself. What can be said with confidence is that his work belongs to a period when medical handbooks for general readers were widely published and aimed to bring health information into the home.
Because reliable biographical details are scarce in the sources reviewed, it is safer to treat him as an obscure author known chiefly through this publication rather than to repeat uncertain claims. For readers today, his interest lies less in personal fame than in what his book reveals about health writing and domestic medicine in the 1890s.