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

of temperance. Still my appetite for animal food seems unabated. I have ever been a man unusually temperate in the use of intoxicating drinks; and by no means intemperate in the luxuries of the table. I take no meat, no alcoholic or fermented drinks, not even cider; and, for a year past, my health has been better than for three years previous; and I think that about one third the amount of nourishment usually taken by men of my age, might subserve the purposes of food for _me_ better than a larger quantity. The more I eat, the more I desire to eat; and abstinence is my best medicine. But I have already surpassed my limits, and here are my answers. 1. My strength is invariably diminished by animal food, and in almost direct proportion to the quantity, with the exception named above. 2. Pain has been the uniform attendant upon the digestion of an animal diet, with feverish restlessness and constipation. 3. Decidedly more fit for energetic action. 4. An irritation, or subacute inflammation of the digestive apparatus, which is aggravated by animal food. 5. Can endure hardship, exposure, and fatigue, much better without meat. 6. About four years, with the exception stated above. 7. It was not. 8. Partially at the commencement; but not of late, if not taken hot. 9. Much more aperient. 10. Both classes take too much; and students and sedentaries should take little or none. 11. For myself farinaceous articles first, then the succulent sub-acid ripe fruits, then the less oily nuts are most healthful--and animal food, strong coffee and tea, and unripe or hard fruits, in any considerable quantities, are most pernicious. Yours, etc., W. H. WEBSTER. LETTER XIV.--FROM JOSIAH BENNET, ESQ. MOUNT-JOY, Pa., Oct. 27, 1835. SIR,--I hereby transmit to you, answers to a series of dietetic queries which you have recently submitted. 1. My physical strength was at least equal (I am rather inclined to think greater) after abstaining from animal food. I was, I am certain, not subject to such general debility and lassitude of the system, after considerable bodily