Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned By Medical Men, And By Experience in All Ages
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_For a time_, I say, since there never was aninstance wherein a change from spirituous liquors and animal food tovegetables and pure water has failed ultimately to invigorate the body, by rendering its juices bland and consentaneous, and to restore to themind that cheerfulness and elasticity which not one in fifty possesseson the present system. A love of strong liquor is also with difficultytaught to infants. Almost every one remembers the wry faces which thefirst glass of port produced. Unsop...histicated instinct is invariablyunerring; but to decide on the fitness of animal food from the pervertedappetites which its constrained adoption produces, is to make thecriminal a judge in his own cause; it is even worse--it is appealing tothe infatuated drunkard in a question of the salubrity of brandy. "Except in children, however, there remain no traces of that instinctwhich determines, in all other animals, what aliment is natural orotherwise; and so perfectly obliterated are they in the reasoning adultsof our species, that it has become necessary to urge considerationsdrawn from comparative anatomy to prove that we are naturallyfrugiverous.
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