In Lynn, Massachusetts, opened a center, girls’ school, where he began his pro career health reform. In 1848, he married his second wife, to Thomas Low Nichols, a writer with an interest in everything related to health reform and the rights of women; together they opened the American Institute in New York Hydropathical (1852).
Reading the work of another precursor of Naturopathy, Sylvester Graham, and Maria Gove began to lecture women on anatomy, physiology and hygiene, their sincerity often provoked admiration and scandal.
Determined to relieve women of what she saw as unnecessary physical and mental suffering caused by their lack of access to health information, she recommended that women RICE daily exercise, breathe fresh air, water it with cold water , avoid tight corsets and bound fashion dictated the schedule and refrain from drinking coffee and meat.
