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

well, rendered it necessary for me to abstain from all kinds, excepting dry wheat bread and gruel, for several weeks. By degrees I returned to my former course of diet, but as yet not to its full extent, as I cannot partake of animal food of any kind whatever, nor of vegetables cooked therewith. 1. Diminished. 2. ---- 3. I do not perceive the mind to be clearer, and the power of investigation less. 4. Distress in the stomach and pain in the head removed. 5. ---- 6. Six years and ten months. 7. Unusual proportion of animal food. 8. The first year, I drank only warm water, sweetened; since that, tea. 9. ---- 10. I do not. 11. I find _beets_ particularly hard to digest. L. R. B. The foregoing statements and answers are in her own way and manner. Yours, etc., GEO. H. PERRY. LETTER XVII.--FROM DR. L. W. SHERMAN. FALMOUTH, Mass., March 28, 1835. SIR,--In compliance with the request you recently made in the Medical Journal, I inclose the following answers to the queries relative to regimen you have propounded. They are given by a lady, whose experience, intelligence, and discernment, have eminently qualified her to answer them. She, with myself, is equally interested with you in having this important question settled, and is extremely happy that you have undertaken to do it. This lady is now fifty years of age; her constitution naturally is good; her early habits were active, and her diet simple, until twenty years of age. After that, until within a few years, her living consisted of all kinds of meats and delicacies, with wine after dinners, etc., etc. 1. Her bodily strength was greatly increased by excluding animal food from her diet. 2. The animal sensations connected with the process of digestion have been decidedly more agreeable. 3. The mind is much clearer, the spirits much better, the temper more even, and "less irritability pervades the system." The mind can continue a laborious investigation longer than when she subsisted on a mixed diet. 4. Her health, which was before feeble, has, by