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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... human nature . But I have found that little good is to be done by producing solitary cases . I have , therefore , deferred this publication till I could obtain a body of facts concurring to the same end ; and which , I hope , may ...
... human nature . But I have found that little good is to be done by producing solitary cases . I have , therefore , deferred this publication till I could obtain a body of facts concurring to the same end ; and which , I hope , may ...
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... human flesh ; the sot laughs , who is advised to relin- quish drinking ; and we are informed by Captain Cook that , when several of his people expressed to the inhabitants of New Zealand their abhorrence of the custom of eating human ...
... human flesh ; the sot laughs , who is advised to relin- quish drinking ; and we are informed by Captain Cook that , when several of his people expressed to the inhabitants of New Zealand their abhorrence of the custom of eating human ...
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... human body . " The doctrines of scientific medicine descend from that small body of educated men , who give themselves up to it as a pro- fession and the means of a livelihood . With these men it is a branch of philosophical science ...
... human body . " The doctrines of scientific medicine descend from that small body of educated men , who give themselves up to it as a pro- fession and the means of a livelihood . With these men it is a branch of philosophical science ...
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... human body . Hence the errors of philosophy were engrafted upon physiology . Hippocrates is said to have separated medicine from philoso- phy . This can mean no more than that he was the first of the philosophers , who considered ...
... human body . Hence the errors of philosophy were engrafted upon physiology . Hippocrates is said to have separated medicine from philoso- phy . This can mean no more than that he was the first of the philosophers , who considered ...
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... human character ; and the records of medicine show that the human body has been at all times ( within the reach of written memorials ) subject to the same diseases . With the exception of a few contagions ( the effect , perhaps , of ...
... human character ; and the records of medicine show that the human body has been at all times ( within the reach of written memorials ) subject to the same diseases . With the exception of a few contagions ( the effect , perhaps , of ...
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