Periodical Curiosite

http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/temple_of_health/

Here is the IAPSOP archive of The Temple of Health and Psychic Review from Editor Dr. JM Peebles.  I found his anti-vaccine books in the library and looked him up.  

Peebles Anti-Vaxxer book cover

Peebles also wrote a book called, How to Live a Century and Grow Old Gracefully, and was a member of the California Centenarian Club.  He almost lived to 100, just 36 days short.  

Per their website, The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP), started in 2009 and is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals published between the Congress of Vienna and the start of the Second World War.

I'm impressed by the size of the collection of journals and ephemera for this ad hoc outfit.  I'm just now getting into it, but it seems to be organized really well and I love the titles IAPSOP's archives have to offer!

There's even one called, Curiosite!

http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/curiosite/

Summary of this journal from the website: 

Bosc (1837-1913), who wrote most of the journal, was an archeologist and architectural historian, and also a prominent occultist, specializing in the "Celtic Renaissance" (i.e., the occultism of the ancient Celts), magic mirrors, and the use of psychotropic drugs in occultism. "Paul Sedir" (Yvon Le Loup, 1871-1926), like F. Ch. Barlet, one of his mentors, had a hand in every occult movement and society in France at the end of the nineteenth century. He shared many of Bosc's interests, writing on magic mirrors and plants, including psychoactive ones, but over time he increasingly turned away from occultism and toward Christian mysticism. The journal featured short articles on items of general interest in occultism, psychical research and magnetism and had a somewhat supercilious view toward spiritualism that led it to emphasize the frauds revealed by the exposures of phenomenal mediums. 

Hmmm, maybe Periodical Curiosity will be in someone's archives some day. HA!