Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages

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Alcott William Andrus. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages

CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF THIS WORK

CHAPTER II

LETTER I. – FROM DR. PARMLY, DENTIST

LETTER II – FROM DR. W. A. ALCOTT

LETTER III. – FROM DR. D. S. WRIGHT

LETTER IV. – FROM DR. H. N. PRESTON.1

LETTER V. – FROM DR. H. A. BARROWS

LETTER VI. – FROM DR. CALEB BANNISTER

LETTER VII. – FROM DR. LYMAN TENNY

LETTER VIII. – FROM DR. J. M. B. HARDEN

LETTER IX. – FROM JOSEPH RICKETSON, ESQ

LETTER X. – FROM JOSEPH CONGDON, ESQ

LETTER XI. – FROM GEORGE W. BAKER, ESQ

LETTER XII – FROM JOHN HOWLAND, JR., ESQ

LETTER XIII. – FROM DR. W. H. WEBSTER

LETTER XIV. – FROM JOSIAH BENNET, ESQ

LETTER XV. – FROM WILLIAM VINCENT, ESQ.2

LETTER XVI. – FROM L. R. BRADLEY, BY DR. GEO. H. PERRY

LETTER XVII. – FROM DR. L. W. SHERMAN

CHAPTER III. REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING LETTERS

CHAPTER IV. ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE

LETTER I. – FROM DR. H. A. BARROWS

LETTER II. – FROM DR. JOHN M. B. HARDEN

LETTER III. – FROM DR. JOSHUA PORTER

LETTER IV. – FROM DR. N. J. KNIGHT, OF TRURO

LETTER V. – FROM DR. LESTER KEEP

LETTER VI. – SECOND LETTER FROM DR. KEEP

LETTER VII. – FROM DR. HENRY H. BROWN

LETTER VIII. – FROM DR. FRANKLIN KNOX

LETTER IX. – FROM A HIGHLY RESPECTABLE PHYSICIAN

CHAPTER V. TESTIMONY OF OTHER MEDICAL MEN, BOTH OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES

CHAPTER VI. TESTIMONY OF PHILOSOPHERS AND OTHER EMINENT MEN

CHAPTER VII. SOCIETIES AND COMMUNITIES ON THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM

CHAPTER VIII. VEGETABLE DIET DEFENDED

I. THE ANATOMICAL ARGUMENT

II. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

III. THE MEDICAL ARGUMENT

IV. THE POLITICAL ARGUMENT

V. THE ECONOMICAL ARGUMENT

VI. THE ARGUMENT FROM EXPERIENCE

VII. THE MORAL ARGUMENT

VIII. THE MILLENNIAL ARGUMENT

IX. THE BIBLE ARGUMENT

CONCLUSION

OUTLINES. OF A. NEW SYSTEM OF FOOD AND COOKERY

CLASS I. – FARINACEOUS, OR MEALY SUBSTANCES

CLASS II. – FRUITS

CLASS III. – ROOTS. DIVISION I. – MEALY ROOTS

CLASS IV. – MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD

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The great question in regard to diet, viz., whether any food of the animal kind is absolutely necessary to the most full and perfect development of man's whole nature, being fairly up, both in Europe and America, and there being no practical, matter-of-fact volume on the subject, of moderate size, in the market, numerous friends have been for some time urging me to get up a new and revised edition of a work which, though imperfect, has been useful to many, while it has been for some time out of print. Such an edition I have at length found time to prepare – to which I have added, in various ways, especially in the form of new facts, nearly fifty pages of new and original matter.

In the meantime, the duties of my profession, and the nature of my studies led me to prosecute, more diligently than ever, a subject which I had been studying, more or less, from my very childhood – the laws of Human Health. Among other things, I collected facts on this subject from books which came in my way; so that when I went to Boston, in January, 1832, I had already obtained, from various writers, on materia medica, physiology, disease, and dietetics, quite a large parcel. The results of my reflections on these, and of my own observation and experience, were, in part – but in part only – developed in July, of the same year, in an anonymous pamphlet, entitled, "Rational View of the Spasmodic Cholera;" published by Messrs. Clapp & Hull, of Boston.

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1. The strength of both myself and wife has very materially increased, so that we can now walk ten miles as easily as we could five before; possibly it may in part be attributed to practice. Our health is, in every respect, much improved. One of our women enjoys perfect health; the other was feeble when we commenced this way of living, and she has not gained much if any in the time; but this may be owing to her attendance on my mother, both day and night, who, being blind and feeble, takes no exercise except to walk across the room; but we are very sure she would not have lived to this time had she not adopted this way of living.

2. The process of digestion is much more agreeable, if we do not indulge in eating too much. We seldom have occasion to think of it after rising from the table.

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