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

knowledge of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. [11] "Unless," as a writer in the Graham Journal very justly observes, "these latter indulge, habitually and freely, in the use of intoxicating substances." [12] Such was Gen. Elliot, so distinguished at the famous siege of Gibraltar. Such, too, was Mr. Shillitoe, of whom honorable mention will be made in another place;--besides many more. [13] So he thinks, but I think otherwise. Animal food, as I have shown elsewhere, is not so nutritious as some of the farinaceous vegetables. [14] Dr. J. here overlooks one important fact, viz., that the testimony of all those who have tried the exclusive use of vegetable food is _positive_ in its nature; while that of others, who have not tried it, is, and necessarily must be, negative. [15] The Water-Cure Journal. [16] An aged lady, of Dedham--a pillar in every good cause--has, for twelve or fifteen years, carried abroad with her, when traveling, some plain bread and apples; and no entreaties will prevail with her, at home or abroad, to eat luxuries. CHAPTER VI. TESTIMONY OF PHILOSOPHERS AND OTHER EMINENT MEN. General Remarks.--Testimony of Plautus.--Plutarch.--Porphyry.--Lord Bacon.--Sir William Temple.--Cicero.--Cyrus the Great.--Gassendi.--Prof. Hitchcock.--Lord Kaims.--Dr. Thomas Dick.--Prof. Bush.--Thomas Shillitoe.--Alexander Pope.--Sir Richard Phillips.--Sir Isaac Newton.--The Abbé Gallani.--Homer.--Dr. Franklin.--Mr. Newton.--O. S. Fowler.--Rev. Mr. Johnston.--John H. Chandler.--Rev. J. Caswell.--Mr. Chinn.--Father Sewall.--Magliabecchi.--Oberlin and Swartz.--James Haughton.--John Bailies.--Francis Hupazoli.--Prof. Ferguson.--Howard, the Philanthropist.--Gen. Elliot.--Encyclopedia Americana.--Thomas Bell, of London.--Linnæus, the Naturalist.--Shelley, the Poet.--Rev. Mr. Rich.--Rev. John Wesley.--Lamartine. GENERAL REMARKS. This chapter might have been much more extended than it is. I might have mentioned, for example, the cases of Daniel and his three brethren, at the court of the Babylonian monarch, who certainly maintained their health--if they did not even improve it--by vegetable food, and by a form of it, too, which has by many been considered rather doubtful. I might have mentioned the case of Paul,[17] who, though he occasionally appears to have eaten flesh, said, expressly, that he would abstain from it while the world stood, where a great moral end was to be gained; and no one can suppose he would have done so, had he