Substance of the work entitled fruits and farinacea : the proper food of man / by the late John Smith, of Malton ; edited by emeritus professor Francis William Newman, for the Vegetarian Society.

  • Smith, John
Date:
1873
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Credit: Substance of the work entitled fruits and farinacea : the proper food of man / by the late John Smith, of Malton ; edited by emeritus professor Francis William Newman, for the Vegetarian Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    quantitiesanfml^oTd 'trfci.tTtLrr™'' f' and thoy are noted for the ZlTdS'lv V thS^ tl'?^ ^f! ' tt'TnlS TiraT ««*«^,°~er anTwS Mie innamtants, with active and industrious habits knew diet si?ed t£T^th^' '^'^^ ^ plain, simp'e and coarsi diet-stated that the people were very remarkabl^ for their fine r./f.T'^u^^^^^**^-' ^^ollj free from decav and that, although he was the only surgeon in the whoS counYv he had occasion to extract but one tooth in the Xle fiS years ; and he finally left the part, because he fo^d no pio fessional business to attend to.t ^ CHAPTER VIII. BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OP VEGETABLE FOOD ON INVALIDS. Reports are Often Widely Circulated, and widely believed, about persons who had adopted a vegetarian regimen, and so r^ducS their strength by it that there was no power of recovery. Dr ^.^fh o ' f- of medicine in Hartford, Connecticut, resolved in consequence to inquire of his professional brethren into the efifects of this diet which is very common in America. By a circular in the Bosto7i Medical and ^urcfical Journal he requested their communications His queries were inserted in the PhUadelphian Journal of Medical ^cience, and were copied into many papers. In a few months he received numerous rephes. Not a single case was mentioned of anyone having fallen a victim to vegetable diet; but an almost unanimous statement that a change from an ordiuarv mixed diet to one severely vegetarian, with only water or milk tor beverage, was beneficial to health and strength of body and mmd. In thirty to forty cases reported by medical men not a lact IS mentioned to prove harm from vegetable food, and in * See Life in Mexico, by Madame C de la B . •f Lectures on the Science of Human Life. Vol. I., p. 518,