New Zealand's Greatest Doctor:
Ulric Williams of Wanganui
A Surgeon who became a Naturopath
By Brenda Sampson
Books, Pamphlets and Articles by Ulric Williams
His first book was "Hints on Healthy Living". This was first published in 1934. This was followed by three further editions with the same title, each one revised and enlarged. These appeared between 1935 and 1939.
His last book was "Health and Healing in the New Age; a fifth revised and enlarged edition of "Hints on healthy living". This was published by AH & AW Reed in 1949.
The titles above are held in the Turnbull Library in Wellington. They also hold three pamphlets:
New light on the problem of human suffering, (1935).
Hospitals and hooey or health, (1941).
Health talks: addresses and articles by Ulric Williams, reprinted from articles published in "Democracy", the newspaper of the NZ Social Credit party, (1948).
Ulric Williams gave public lectures in Auckland and Wellington. They were advertised in the main newspapers, and the halls were packed, but the meetings were boycotted by the press. No Wellington reporters attended. In Auckland, reporters from the Star and the Herald attended, but no report appeared in either paper.
Dr Ulric Williams had been writing articles for Democracy. Those in the pamphlet "Health Talks" were reprinted as a protest against this boycott of a man whom Democracy considered a courageous and outstanding leader.
Ulric Williams was a prolific writer of articles for the public, and it seems that newspapers and journals in the thirties and forties were eager to publish them. Series of articles appeared in the NZ Radio Times, NZ Mirror, Wanganui Herald, Democracy. Some of the periodicals containing Ulric Williams' articles are held in the Turnbull Library. Many photocopies are held by the Wanganui Regional Library, Queens Park, Wanganui, in their Heritage
