Water and Vegetable DietThis 1854 work by William Lambe, with notes and additions by Joel Shew, is the American edition of a work originally published in England in 1815. The work sets forth the superiority of a vegetarian diet, in combination with water-treatment, in the prevention of disease and maintenance of health. |
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... Water and Vegetable Diet in Consumption , Scrofula , Cancer , Asthma , and ... cure of disease , in the United States , I confidently believe . I feel ... cure , by the adoption of vegetable 290349 iv PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION ...
... Water and Vegetable Diet in Consumption , Scrofula , Cancer , Asthma , and ... cure of disease , in the United States , I confidently believe . I feel ... cure , by the adoption of vegetable 290349 iv PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION ...
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... water - treatment with the course pointed out . I therefore recommend that all who make the experi- ment of vegetable diet ... water - cure . The experiment will thus be much easier borne , and its benefits rendered greater . JOEL SHEW ...
... water - treatment with the course pointed out . I therefore recommend that all who make the experi- ment of vegetable diet ... water - cure . The experiment will thus be much easier borne , and its benefits rendered greater . JOEL SHEW ...
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... treatment . The question . they said , is not what makes a disease , but what will cure it , How digestion is performed , is of no moment ; but what matter is most easily digestible , is of the greatest ; it matters not how we breathe ...
... treatment . The question . they said , is not what makes a disease , but what will cure it , How digestion is performed , is of no moment ; but what matter is most easily digestible , is of the greatest ; it matters not how we breathe ...
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... water - cure . If the objections were stated against the use of hard and impure water , they would have some force , but not otherwise . There is no danger whatever in allowing per- sons the freest use of pure soft water , however cold ...
... water - cure . If the objections were stated against the use of hard and impure water , they would have some force , but not otherwise . There is no danger whatever in allowing per- sons the freest use of pure soft water , however cold ...
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... cure , the most frequent and most fatal of our diseases . But it should be considered that though tem- perature has very considerable influence over the symptoms of disease , it has little or none over its general results and final ...
... cure , the most frequent and most fatal of our diseases . But it should be considered that though tem- perature has very considerable influence over the symptoms of disease , it has little or none over its general results and final ...
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