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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... excite malignant fevers of the remittent or inter- mittent kind , fluxes , and their attendant evils . The immediate agent of these diseases are heat and moisture acting upon dead animal and vegetable matter , producing in them a state ...
... excite malignant fevers of the remittent or inter- mittent kind , fluxes , and their attendant evils . The immediate agent of these diseases are heat and moisture acting upon dead animal and vegetable matter , producing in them a state ...
Page 39
... excite the intermittent and remittent fever . The village of Horne is low and damp , near the banks of the Mole ; and formerly agues were common there . The heat and confined moisture of the places where it is en- demical , point ...
... excite the intermittent and remittent fever . The village of Horne is low and damp , near the banks of the Mole ; and formerly agues were common there . The heat and confined moisture of the places where it is en- demical , point ...
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... excite astonishment in those who are imperfectly acquainted with the facts , yet there is a great diversity in the healthiness of different villages and country places . This demonstrates and exemplifies the important in- fluence of ...
... excite astonishment in those who are imperfectly acquainted with the facts , yet there is a great diversity in the healthiness of different villages and country places . This demonstrates and exemplifies the important in- fluence of ...
Page 67
... excite considerable alarm , and it may even- tually be fatal . " From this statement I conclude that the change of regimen has made no marked alteration in this disease . I repeat , then , that abstemiousness does not cure constitu ...
... excite considerable alarm , and it may even- tually be fatal . " From this statement I conclude that the change of regimen has made no marked alteration in this disease . I repeat , then , that abstemiousness does not cure constitu ...
Page 70
... excite an alarm , and a fear of essential and irretrievable injury to the constitution . Let us consider how impossible it is that this should be otherwise , and therefore how little is to be apprehended from it . Animal food commonly ...
... excite an alarm , and a fear of essential and irretrievable injury to the constitution . Let us consider how impossible it is that this should be otherwise , and therefore how little is to be apprehended from it . Animal food commonly ...
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