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

recently published in London. Its facts are derived from Dr. Playfair, Boussingault, and other high authorities. It will be seen to refute, entirely, the popular notions concerning the Liebig theory. The truth is, Liebig's views are misunderstood. His views are not so much opposed to mine as many suppose. Besides, neither he nor I are infallible. Flesh Heat Ashes forming forming for Solid matter. Water. principle. principle. the bones. Potatoes, 28 per ct. 72 per ct. 2 per ct. 25 per ct. 1 per ct. Turnips, 11 " 89 " 1 " 9 " 1 " Barley Meal, 84-1/2 " 15-1/2 " 14 " 68-1/2 " 2 " Beans, 86 " 14 " 31 " 51-1/2 " 3 " Oats, 82 " 18 " 11 " 68 " 3 " Wheat, 85-1/2 " 14-1/2 " 21 " 62 " 2-1/2 " Peas, 84 " 16 " 29 " 51-1/2 " 3-1/2 " Carrots, 13 " 87 " 2 " 10 " 1 " Veal, 25 " 75 " { Beef, 25 " 75 " { 25 Mutton, 25 " 75 " { Lamb, 25 " 75 " { Blood, 20 " 80 " 20 VI. THE ARGUMENT FROM EXPERIENCE. A person trained in the United States or in England--but especially one who was trained in New England--might very naturally suppose that all the world were flesh-eaters; and that the person who abstains from an article which is at almost every one's table, was quite singular. He would, perhaps, suppose there must be something peculiar in his structure, to enable him to live without either flesh or fish; particularly, if he were a laborer. Little would he dream--little does a person who has not had much opportunity for reading, and who has not been taught to reflect, and who has never traveled a day's journey from the place which gave him birth, even so much as dream--that almost all the world, or at least almost all the hard-laboring part of it, are vegetable-eaters, and always have been; and that it is only in a few comparatively small portions of the civilized