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

firmly believe it would. 11. My diet, principally, during the trial, consisted of wheat bread, of the proper age, with a moderate quantity of fresh butter. Potatoes, beans, and some other esculent roots, etc., I found to be nutritious and healthy. The following substances I found to produce a contrary effect, or to possess different qualities: cabbage, when not well boiled; cucumbers, raw or pickled; radishes, beets, and the whole catalogue of preserves. Fresh bread was particularly hurtful to me. Yours, etc., JOSIAH BENNETT. LETTER XV.--FROM WILLIAM VINCENT, ESQ.[2] HOPKINTON, R. I., Dec. 23, 1835. SIR,--The following answer to the interrogations in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of March 1835, on diet, etc., as proposed by yourself, has been through the press of business, neglected until this late period. Trusting they may be of some use, I now forward them. 1. Rather increased, if any change. 2. ---- 3. I think I have retained the vigor of my mind more, in consequence of an abstemious diet. 4. I thought I had the appearance of scurvy, which gradually disappeared. 5. ---- 6. From May 20, 1811, (more than twenty-four years.) 7. Small in quantity, and dressed and cooked simply. 8. I have drank nothing but warm tea, for seven years. 9. Bowels uniformly open. 10. I should not think it would. 11. I have lived principally on bread, butter, and cheese, and a few dried vegetables. I was born March 31, 1764. In 1833, when mowing, to quench thirst, I drank about a gill of cold water, _after_ about as much milk and water; and the same year, some molasses and water; but they did not answer the purpose. But when I rinsed my mouth with cold water, it allayed my thirst. (Signed) WM. VINCENT. LETTER XVI.--FROM L. R. BRADLEY, BY DR. GEO. H. PERRY. HOPKINTON, R. I., Dec. 23, 1835. SIR,--I deem it necessary, first, to mention the situation of my health, at the time of commencing abstinence from animal food. I was recovering from an illness of a _nervous fever_. A sudden change respecting my food not sitting