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Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages: Including a System of Vegetable CookeryAlcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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

Name: Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages: Including a System of Vegetable Cookery
Author: Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Food; Vegetarianism

General Remarks.--Testimony of Dr. Cheyne.--Dr.
     Geoffroy.--Vauquelin and Percy.--Dr. Pemberton.--Sir John
     Sinclair.--Dr. James.--Dr. Cranstoun.--Dr. Taylor.--Drs.
     Hufeland and Abernethy.--Sir Gilbert Blane.--Dr. Gregory.--Dr.
     Cullen.--Dr. Rush.--Dr. Lambe.--Prof. Lawrence.--Dr.
     Salgues.--Author of "Sure Methods."--Baron Cuvier.--Dr. Luther
     V. Bell.--Dr. Buchan.--Dr. Whitlaw.--Dr. Clark.--Prof.
     Mussey.--Drs. Bell and Condie.--Dr. J. V. C. Smith.--Mr.
     Graham.--Dr. J. M. Andrews, Jr.--Dr. Sweetser.--Dr.
     Pierson.--Physician in New York.--Females' Encyclopedia.--Dr.
     Van Cooth.--Dr. Beaumont.--Sir Everard Home.--Dr.
     Jennings.--Dr. Jarvis.--Dr. Ticknor.--Dr. Coles.--Dr.
     Shew.--Dr. Morrill.--Dr. Bell.--Dr. Jackson.--Dr.
     Stephenson.--Dr. J. Burdell.--Dr. Smethurst.--Dr.
     Schlemmer.--Dr. Curtis.--Dr. Porter,                 92-175


CHAPTER VI.

TESTIMONY OF PHILOSOPHERS AND OTHER EMINENT MEN.

     General Remarks.--Testimony of
     Plautus.--Plutarch.--Porphyry.--Lord Bacon.--Sir William
     Temple.--Cicero.--Cyrus the Great.--Gassendi.--Prof.
     Hitchcock.--Lord Kaims.--Dr. Thomas Dick.--Prof. Bush.--Thomas
     Shillitoe.--Alexander Pope.--Sir Richard Phillips.--Sir Isaac
     Newton.--The Abbé Gallani.--Homer.--Dr. Franklin.--Mr.
     Newton.--O. S. Fowler.--Rev. Mr. Johnston.--John H.
     Chandler.--Rev. J. Caswell.--Mr. Chinn.--Father
     Sewall.--Magliabecchi.--Oberlin and Swartz.--James
     Haughton.--John Bailies.--Francis Hupazoli.--Prof.
     Ferguson.--Howard, the Philanthropist.--Gen.
     Elliot.--Encyclopedia Americana.--Thomas Bell, of
     London.--Linnæus, the Naturalist.--Shelley, the Poet.--Rev.
     Mr. Rich.--Rev. John Wesley.--Lamartine,            176-222


CHAPTER VII.

SOCIETIES AND COMMUNITIES ON THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM.

     The Pythagoreans.--The Essenes.--The Bramins.--Society of Bible
     Christians.--Orphan Asylum of Albany.--The Mexican
     Indians.--School in Germany.--American Physiological
     Society,                                            223-235


CHAPTER VIII.

VEGETABLE DIET DEFENDED.

     General Remarks on the Nature of the Argument.--1. The
     Anatomical Argument.--2. The Physiological Argument.--3. The
     Medical Argument.--4. The Political Argument.--5. The
     Economical Argument.--6. The Argument from Experience.--7. The
     Moral Argument.--Conclusion,                        236-296

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VEGETABLE COOKERY.


CLASS I.

FARINACEOUS OR MEALY SUBSTANCES.

     Bread of the first order.--Bread of the second order.--Bread of
     the third kind.--Boiled Grains.--Grains in other forms--baked,
     parched, roasted, or torrefied.--Hominy.--Puddings proper,
                                                         291-308


CLASS II.

FRUITS.

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