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

inches high, of a very thin and spare habit of body, with thin dark hair, inclining to baldness; complexion rather dark than fair; eyes dark hazel; of _very studious_ habits when free from active engagements; with great powers of mental abstraction and attention, and of a temper _remarkably even_. In answer to your interrogatories, he replies,-- 1. That his bodily strength was increased, and general health became better. 2. He perceived no difference. 3. He is assured of the affirmative. 4. His spleen was diminished in size, and frequent and long-continued attacks of _lumbago_ were rendered _much milder_, and have so continued. 5. Had fewer colds and febrile attacks. 6. Three years. 7. No; with the slight exception mentioned above. 8. No. 9. In his case rather less. 10. Undoubtedly. 11. No; has made his meals of cabbages entirely, and found them as easily digested as any other article of diet. I may remark, that _honey_ to him is a poison, producing, _invariably_, symptoms of cholera. After three years' trial of this diet, without having any previous apparent disease, but on the contrary as strong as usual, he was taken, somewhat suddenly, in the winter of 1832 and 3, with symptoms of extreme debility, attended with oedematous swellings of the lower extremities, and painful cramps, at night confined to the gastrocnemii of both legs, and some feverishness, indicated more by the beatings of the _carotids_ than by any other symptom. His countenance became very pallid, and indeed he had every appearance of a man in a very low state of health. Yet, during the whole period of this apparent state of disease, there were no symptoms indicative of disorder in any function, save the general function of innervation, and perhaps that of the lymphatics or absorbents of the lower extremities. Nor was there any manifest disease of any organ, unless it was the spleen, which was not then remarkably enlarged. I was myself disposed to attribute his symptoms to the spleen, and possibly to the want of animal food; but he himself attributes its commencement, if not its continuance, to