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

exercise. 2. Process of digestion more regular and agreeable. 3. Mental activity greater; no decisive experiments on the ability to _continue_ a laborious investigation. 4. Dyspepsia of long continuance, and also difficult breathing; inflammation of the eyes. 5. Fewer colds; febrile attacks very slight; great elasticity in recovering from disease. Some part of the effect should undoubtedly be ascribed to greater attention to the skin by bathing and friction. 6. Twenty-six months of _entire abstinence_ from all animal substances, excepting butter and milk. Salt is used regularly. 7. Through life inclined to a vegetable diet, with few stimulants. 8. Drinks have been milk, milk and water, or cold water. 9. A _well-selected_ vegetable diet appears to produce a very regular action of the stomach and bowels. 10. I think the health of laborers and students would be promoted by a _great_ reduction of the usual quantity of animal food, and perhaps by discontinuing its use entirely. I feel no want. 11. From my experience, I can very highly recommend bread made of coarse wheat flour. Among fruits, the blackberry, as peculiarly adapted to the state of the body, at the time of the year when it is in season. My range of food has been confined. I avoid green vegetables. Age 35. JOSEPH CONGDON. LETTER XI.--FROM GEORGE W. BAKER, ESQ. NEW BEDFORD, 9th month, 10, 1835. DR. M. L. NORTH,--Agreeably to request, the following answers are forwarded, which I believe to be correct as far as my experience has tested. 1. At first it was diminished; but after a few months it was restored, and I think increased. 2. More. 3. It could. 4. Pretty free from constitutional infirmities before the change, and no increase since. 5. I have had no cold, of any consequence, for the last three years; at which time I substituted cold water for tea and coffee, and commenced using cold water for washing about my head and neck and for shaving, which I continued through the year. 6. I have not eaten animal food for about eighteen months. 7. Two years previous to the entire