Vegetable diet : as sanctioned by medical men, and by experience in all ages : including a system of vegetable cookery by Alcott William A. (William Andrus) 1798-1859

Author:Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vegetarianism, cbk
Publisher: New York : Fowlers and Wells
Published: 1853-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

reality feed on the same things, in a somewhat different form."

There is this difference, however, that in the one case—that is, in the use of the vegetables which contain the elements referred to—we save the trouble of running it through the body of the living animal, and losing seven eighths of it, as we do, practically in the process; whereas in the other we do not. We also save ourselves the necessity of training the young and the old to scenes of butchery and blood.

PROF. JOHNSTOK.

This gentleman, in a recent edition of his " Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology," tells us that from experiments made in the laboratory of the Agricultural Association of Scotland, wheat and oats, when analyzed, contain of nutritious properties the following proportion:

Thus oats, and even wheat, are quite rich in that which forms muscular matter in the human body.

SIMEON COLLINS, OF WESTFIKLD, MASS.

This gentleman, in his fifty-first year, states that having been for several years afflicted with a severe cough, which he supposed bordered upon consumption, he " discontinued the use of flesh meat, fish, fowl, butter, gravy, tea, and coffee, and made use of a plain vegetable diet." " My bread," says he, " is made of unbolted wheat meal; my drink is pure cold water ; my bed, for winter and summer, is made of the everlasting

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