Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages: Including a System of Vegetable Cookery

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Author: William A. Alcott Release date: November 15, 2009 [eBook #30478] Most recently updated: October 24, 2024 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30478 Credits: Produced by Bryan Ness, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VEGETABLE DIET: AS SANCTIONED BY MEDICAL MEN, AND BY EXPERIENCE IN ALL AGES *** VEGETABLE DIET: AS SANCTIONED BY MEDICAL MEN, AND BY EXPERIENCE IN ALL AGES. INCLUDING A SYSTEM OF VEGETABLE COOKERY. BY DR. WM. A. ALCOTT, 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. PREFACE 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,