Excerpt from Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages I have said, it was t my original intention to prove a vegetable and fruit diet to be any thing more than safe. But I wish t to be un derstood as entertaining, even at that time, any doubts in regard to the superiority. Of such a diet: the only questions-with me were, Whether the pub lic mind was ready to hear and weigh the proofs, and Whether this volume was the place in which to present them. Both these questions, however, as I went on, were settled, in the affirmative. I believed and still believe -that the public mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.