Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages / Including a System of Vegetable Cookery
AUTHOR OF THE YOUNG MAN'S GUIDE, YOUNG WOMAN'S GUIDE, YOUNG MOTHER, YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER, AND LATE EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF HEALTH.
SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.
NEW YORK: FOWLER AND WELLS, PUBLISHERS, No. 308 BROADWAY 1859. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, By fowlers & wells, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. BANES & PALMER, STEREOTYPERS, 201 William st. corner Frankfort, N. Y.
The following volume embraces the testimony, direct or indirect, of more than a hundred individuals—besides that of societies and communities—on the subject of vegetable diet. Most of this one hundred persons are, or were, persons of considerable distinction in society; and more than fifty of them were either medical men, or such as have made physiology, hygiene, anatomy, pathology, medicine, or surgery a leading or favorite study.
As I have written other works besides this—especially the Young House-Keeper —which treat, more or less, of diet, it may possibly be objected, that I sometimes repeat the same idea. But how is it to be avoided? In writing for various classes of the community, and presenting my views in various connections and aspects, it is almost necessary to do so. Writers on theology, or education, or any other important topic, do the same—probably to a far greater extent, in many instances, than I have yet done. I repeat no idea for the sake of repeating it. Not a word is inserted but what seems to me necessary, in order that I may be intelligible. Moreover, like the preacher of truth on many other subjects, it is not so much my object to produce something new in every paragraph, as to explain, illustrate, and enforce what is already known.
It may also be thought that I make too many books. But, as I do not claim to be so much an originator of new things as an instrument for diffusing the old , it will not be expected that I should be twenty years on a volume, like Bishop Butler. I had, however, been collecting my stock of materials for this and other works—published or unpublished—more than twenty-five years. Besides, it might be safely and truly said that the study and reading and writing, in the preparation of this volume, the House I Live In, and the Young House-Keeper, have consumed at least three of the best years of my life, at fourteen or fifteen hours a day. Several of my other works, as the Young Mother, the Mother's Medical Guide, and the Young Wife, have also been the fruit of years of toil and investigation and observation, of which those who think only of the labor of merely writing them out , know nothing. Even the Mother in her Family —at least some parts of it—though in general a lighter work, has been the result of much care and labor. The circumstance of publishing several books at the same, or nearly the same time, has little or nothing to do with their preparation.
William A. Alcott
VEGETABLE DIET:
AS SANCTIONED BY
MEDICAL MEN,
AND BY
EXPERIENCE IN ALL AGES.
INCLUDING A
SYSTEM OF VEGETABLE COOKERY.
PREFACE
ADVERTISEMENT
TO THE SECOND EDITION.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
ORIGIN OF THIS WORK.
CHAPTER II.
LETTERS TO DR. NORTH.
CHAPTER III.
REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING LETTERS.
CHAPTER IV.
ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
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.
VEGETABLE COOKERY.
CLASS I.
CLASS II.
CLASS III.
CLASS IV.
VEGETABLE DIET.
CHAPTER I.
ORIGIN OF THIS WORK.
CHAPTER II.
LETTERS TO DR. NORTH.
LETTER XVII.—FROM DR. L. W. SHERMAN.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III.
REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING LETTERS.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV.
ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V.
TESTIMONY OF OTHER MEDICAL MEN, BOTH OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES.
GENERAL REMARKS.
DR. GEORGE CHEYNE.
DR. GEOFFROY.
MESSRS. PERCY AND VAUQUELIN.
DR. PEMBERTON.
SIR JOHN SINCLAIR.
DR. JAMES, OF WISCONSIN.
DR. CRANSTOUN.
DR. TAYLOR, OF ENGLAND.
DRS. HUFELAND AND ABERNETHY.
DR. GREGORY.
DR. CULLEN, OF EDINBURGH.
DR. BENJAMIN RUSH.
DR. WILLIAM LAMBE, OF LONDON.
PROFESSOR LAWRENCE.
DR. SALGUES.
THE AUTHOR OF "SURE METHODS," ETC.
DR. LUTHER V. BELL.
DR. WILLIAM BUCHAN, AUTHOR OF "DOMESTIC MEDICINE."
DR. CHARLES WHITLAW.
DR. JAMES CLARK.
PROF. MUSSEY, OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
DR. CONDIE, OF PHILADELPHIA.
DR. J. V. C. SMITH, OF BOSTON.
SYLVESTER GRAHAM.
DR. JOHN M. ANDREW.
DR. WILLIAM SWEETSER, OF BOSTON.
DR. A. L. PIERSON.
STATEMENT OF DR. C. BYINGTON, OF PHILADELPHIA.
TESTIMONY OF A PHYSICIAN IN NEW YORK.
THE FEMALE'S CYCLOPEDIA.
DR. VAN COOTH.
DR. WILLIAM BEAUMONT.
SIR EVERARD HOME.
DR. JENNINGS.
DR. JARVIS.
DR. TICKNOR.
DR. COLES.
DR. SHEW.
DR. MORRILL.
DR. BELL.
DR. BRADLEY.
DR. STEPHENSON.
DR. J. BURDELL,
DR. THOMAS SMETHURST,
DR. SCHLEMMER.
DR. CURTIS, AND OTHERS.
PROF. C. U. SHEPARD.
BLACKWOOD, IN HIS MAGAZINE.
PROF. JOHNSTON.
SIMEON COLLINS, OF WESTFIELD, MASS.
REV. JOSEPH EMERSON.
TAK SISSON.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI.
TESTIMONY OF PHILOSOPHERS AND OTHER EMINENT MEN.
GENERAL REMARKS.
PLAUTUS.
PLUTARCH.
PORPHYRY, OF TYRE.
LORD BACON.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE.
CICERO.
CYRUS THE GREAT.
PETER GASSENDI.
PROF. HITCHCOCK.
LORD KAIMS.
DR. THOMAS DICK.
PROFESSOR GEORGE BUSH.
THOMAS SHILLITOE.
ALEXANDER POPE.
SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON.
THE ABBE GALLANI.
HOMER.
DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
MR. NEWTON.
O. S. FOWLER.
REV. MR. JOHNSTON.
JOHN H. CHANDLER.
REV. JESSE CASWELL.
MR. SAMUEL CHINN.
FATHER SEWALL.
MAGLIABECCHI,
OBERLIN AND SWARTZ.
THE IRISH.
JOHN BAILIES.
FRANCIS HUPAZOLI.
MARY CAROLINE HINCKLEY.
JOHN WHITCOMB.
CAPT. ROSS, OF THE BRITISH NAVY.
HENRY FRANCISCO.
PROFESSOR FERGUSON.
HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST.
GEN. ELLIOTT.
ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA.
MR. THOMAS BELL, OF LONDON.
LINNÆUS, THE NATURALIST.
SHELLEY, THE POET.
REV. EZEKIEL RICH.
REV. JOHN WESLEY.
LAMARTINE.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII.
SOCIETIES AND COMMUNITIES ON THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM.
GENERAL REMARKS.
THE PYTHAGOREANS.
THE ESSENES.
THE BRAMINS.
SOCIETY OF BIBLE CHRISTIANS.
ORPHAN ASYLUM OF ALBANY.
THE MEXICAN INDIANS.
SCHOOL IN GERMANY.
THE AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
CHAPTER VIII.
VEGETABLE DIET DEFENDED.
FOOTNOTES:
OUTLINES
OF A
NEW SYSTEM OF FOOD AND COOKERY.
CLASS I.—FARINACEOUS, OR MEALY SUBSTANCES.
DIVISION I.—BREAD.
DIVISION II.—WHOLE GRAINS.
DIVISION III.—CAKES
DIVISION IV.—PUDDINGS.
DIVISION V.—PIES.
CLASS II.—FRUITS.
DIVISION I.—DOMESTIC FRUITS.
DIVISION II.—FOREIGN FRUITS.
CLASS III.—ROOTS.
DIVISION II.—SWEET AND WATERY ROOTS.
CLASS IV.—MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD.
FOOTNOTES:
Fowler and Wells,
American Phrenological Journal.
Combe's Lectures on Phrenology;
WORKS ON WATER CURE,
PUBLISHED BY
Fowler and Wells,
WORKS ON PHYSIOLOGY,
PUBLISHED BY
Fowler and Wells,