A Vegetable Diet

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 137, 19 June 1888, Page 3

A Vegetable Diet

A vegetarian reports to the British Medical Journal the result of his first year's experience without meat. At first he found the vegetables insipid and had to use sauces to get them down. As soon as he became accustomed to the diet all condiments were put aside except a little salt. The desire for alcohol and tobacco left him spontaneously. Then all his digestive functions became regular, and he found himself wholly free from headaches and hilious attacks. After three months a troublesome rheumatism left him, and at the end of a year he had gained 81b in weight. He behoves he can do more mental labour than "before, and that all his senses are more acute. For breakfast he has hrown bread, apples, and coffee, dinner consists of two vegetables, hrown bread, and pie or pudding; for tea he rejoices in bread and jam with milk and water ; and for supper, bread, jam, cold pudding, and, as a luxury, boiled onions. Eggp milk, butter, and cheese, arj used only in very small quantities. The dietist is a doctor, and his statement is drawing out many similar ones from medical men. !