The return to nature, or, A defence of the vegetable regimen : with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family / by John Frank Newton, Esq.

  • Newton, John Frank.
Date:
1811
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Credit: The return to nature, or, A defence of the vegetable regimen : with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family / by John Frank Newton, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    cumstances. Blumenbach states in his work, De generis humani varietate nativa, that the wild sow breeds only once a year, and the tame one twice. In his Manual, 8cc. p. 119, he records the following facts : that wild swine have longer snouts and a form of the skull altogether different; short erect ears; larger canine teeth than the domestic swine; that they want that layer of fat between the skin and muscles observed in bacon. In the island of Cuba, where hogs were introduced from Europe, they have become twice as large as their European parents ; and in Cubagua, they have acquired a vast size, and have hoofs half a span long. The difference of the flavour of the hoo- when omnivorous, and when carefully reared on vegetables, is generally known and acknow- ledged. Pork, indeed, may have been so grossly fed as to occasion sickness in the sto- mach, and violent effects in the bowels, soon after it is eaten: and this, when the food, though unnatural, shall have fallen very short of those disgusting excesses in which Boccacio tells us that with his own eyes he saw that animal indulge during the plague at Florence.