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

have practiced on her plan for a few weeks at a time, and, so far as my experience goes, it precisely comports with hers. But I love the "good things" of this world too well to abstain from their use, until some formidable disease demands their prohibition. Yours, etc., L. W. S. FOOTNOTES: [1] Dr. Preston has since deceased. [2] Mr. Vincent is of Stonington, Ct. CHAPTER III. REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING LETTERS. Correspondence.--The "prescribed course of Regimen."--How many victims to it?--Not one.--Case of Dr. Harden considered.--Case of Dr. Preston.--Views of Drs. Clark, Cheyne, and Lambe, on the treatment of Scrofula.--No reports of Injury from the prescribed System.--Case of Dr. Bannister.--Singular testimony of Dr. Wright.--Vegetable food for Laborers.--Testimony, on the whole, much more favorable to the Vegetable System than could reasonably have been expected, in the circumstances. "Reports not unfrequently reach us," says Dr. North, "of certain individuals who have fallen victims to a prescribed course of regimen. These persons are said, by gentlemen who are entitled to the fullest confidence, to have pertinaciously followed the course, till they reached a point of reduction from which there was no recovery." "If these are facts," he adds, "they ought to be known and published." It was in this view, that Dr. North, himself a medical practitioner of high respectability, sent forth to every corner of the land, through standard and orthodox medical journals, to regular and experienced physicians--his "medical brethren"--his list of inquiries. These inquiries, designed to elicit truth, were couched in just such language as was calculated to give free scope and an acceptable channel for the communication of every fact which seemed to be opposed to the VEGETABLE SYSTEM; for this, we believe, was distinctly understood, by every medical man, to be the "prescribed course of regimen" alluded to. The results of Dr. North's inquiries, and of an opportunity so favorable for "putting down," by the exhibition of sober facts, the vegetable system, are fully presented in the foregoing chapter. Let it not be said by any, that the attempt was a partial or unfair one. Let it be