William Andrus Alcott

Vegetable Diet William Andrus Alcott

Book Excerpt: ...uded animal food from their diet. It is exceedingly desirable that the results of such experiments, so difficult to be found in this land of plenty, should be ascertained and thrown before the profession and the community. Will physicians, then, have the kindness, if they know of any persons in their vicinity who have excluded animal food from their diet for a year or over, to lend them this number of the Journal, and ask them to forward to Milo L. North, Hartford, Connecticut, as early as convenient, the result of this change of diet on their health and constitution, in accordance with the following inquiries?"1. Was your bodily strength either increased or diminished by excluding all animal food from your diet?"2. Were the animal sensations, connected with the process of digestion, more--or less agreeable?"3. Was the mind clearer; and could it continue a laborious investigation longer than when you subsisted on mixed diet?"4. What constitutional infirmities were aggravated or...