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

change the quantity was great, but there had been a gradual diminution. 8. It was. (See fifth answer.) 9. More so, in my case. 10. I believe the health of both laborers and students would be improved. 11. I have generally avoided eating cucumbers; otherwise I have not. Thy assured friend, GEO. W. BAKER. LETTER XII--FROM JOHN HOWLAND, JR., ESQ. NEW BEFORD, 9th month, 10th day, 1835. FRIEND,--As I have lived nearly three years upon a vegetable diet, I cheerfully comply with thy request. 1. My bodily strength has been increased; and I can now endure much more exercise than formerly, without fatigue. 2. They are more agreeable; and I am now free from that dull, heavy feeling, which I used to experience after my meals. 3. My mind is much clearer; and I am free from that depression of spirits, to which I was formerly subject. 4. I was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed. I had frequent and severe attacks of headache, which I now rarely have; and when they do occur they are very light, compared with what they formerly were. 5. I have had fewer colds, and those much lighter than formerly. 6. About three years. 7. I used to eat animal food for breakfast and dinner, with coffee for drink, at those meals; and tea for my third meal, with bread and butter. 8. Milk for breakfast, and cold water for the other two meals. 9. I have found it more so; inasmuch as the use of it, with the substitution of bread, made from _coarse, unbolted wheat flour_, instead of superfine, has removed my costiveness entirely. 10. I do. 11. I consider potatoes and rice as the most healthy, and confine myself principally to the former. I would remark that during the season of fruits, I eat freely of them, with milk; and consider them to be healthy. JOHN HOWLAND, JR. LETTER XIII.--FROM DR. W. H. WEBSTER. BATAVIA, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1835. SIR,--Some months since, I read your inquiries on diet in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and