Sydney Blanshard Flower

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Sydney Blanshard Flower

b. 1867

A prolific publisher and writer in the New Thought world, this British-born American helped shape a movement through magazines, manuals, and self-improvement books. His work ranged from hypnotism and personal magnetism to some of the era’s more unusual health claims.

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The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women

The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women

by Sydney Blanshard Flower

About the author

Born on September 18, 1867, Sydney Blanshard Flower became known as a publisher, editor, and author connected with the early New Thought movement. Sources consistently describe him as British-born and later active in the United States, where he wrote and promoted books on hypnotism, self-control, will-power, physical culture, and related subjects.

He is especially associated with influential New Thought publishing activity in Chicago, including work tied to New Thought magazine and to circles around the Chicago School of Psychology. Project Gutenberg and archival library records show a sizable body of work under his name, including titles on hypnotism, personal magnetism, and popular health ideas.

Some later writings linked him to highly unorthodox medical claims, which are best understood as part of the more speculative side of turn-of-the-century metaphysical and self-help publishing. He died on April 26, 1943, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both the ambitions and the oddities of the New Thought era.