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

most certainly have been, nearly without a dissenting voice, that the entire rejection of wine and fermented liquors was dangerous to the sick, and unsafe to many of the healthy, especially the hard laborer. And there is quite as much reason to believe that animal food will be discarded from our tables in the progress of a century to come, as there was, in 1800, for believing that all drinks but water would be laid aside in the progress of the century which is now passing. FOOTNOTES: [3] See a more recent letter from Dr. Harden, in the next chapter. [4] Besides, it is worthy of notice, that Dr. Preston did not long survive on his own plan. He died about the year 1840. CHAPTER IV. ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE. Letter from Dr. H. A. Barrows.--Dr. J. M. B. Harden.--Dr. J. Porter.--Dr. N. J. Knight.--Dr. Lester Keep.--Second letter from Dr. Keep.--Dr. Henry H. Brown.--Dr. Franklin Knox.--From a Physician.--Additional statements by the Author. During the years 1837 and 1838 I wrote to several of the physicians whose names, experiments, and facts appear in Chapter II. Their answers, so far as received, are now to be presented. I have also received interesting letters from several other physicians in New England and elsewhere--but particularly in New England--on the same general subject, which, with an additional statement of my own case, I have added to the foregoing. I might have added a hundred authentic cases, of similar import. I might also have obtained an additional amount of the same sort of intelligence, had it not been for the want of time, amid numerous other pressing avocations, for correspondence of this kind. Besides, if what I have obtained is not satisfactory, I have many doubts whether more would be so. The first letter I shall insert is from Dr. H. A. Barrows, of Phillips, in Maine. It is dated October 10, 1837, and may be considered as a sequel to that written by him to Dr. North, though it is addressed to the author of this volume. LETTER I.--FROM DR. H. A. BARROWS. DEAR SIR,--As to food,