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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... quantity ; a practice which it should ever be remembered is a violation of the most important of all dietetic rules . In the use of saccharine mat- ter especially , have the " Vegetarians " committed error in the United States . It is ...
... quantity ; a practice which it should ever be remembered is a violation of the most important of all dietetic rules . In the use of saccharine mat- ter especially , have the " Vegetarians " committed error in the United States . It is ...
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... quantity of sulphate of lime , and a small proportional quantity of oxygen , or rather of atmospheric air , make the deplorable enervation of the stomach and intestines pass with rapidity to the glandular system and the absorbent ...
... quantity of sulphate of lime , and a small proportional quantity of oxygen , or rather of atmospheric air , make the deplorable enervation of the stomach and intestines pass with rapidity to the glandular system and the absorbent ...
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... quantity and in a due degree of concentration , will generate fevers of these kinds in any situa- tion whatever . Accordingly we find that there are seasons when such fevers are much diffused over countries in which they are not ...
... quantity and in a due degree of concentration , will generate fevers of these kinds in any situa- tion whatever . Accordingly we find that there are seasons when such fevers are much diffused over countries in which they are not ...
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... quantity of disease may vary , and the number of deaths be less or greater . But taking the average of a series of years together , the same total numbers have been found to die in the same situations , in the equal successive periods ...
... quantity of disease may vary , and the number of deaths be less or greater . But taking the average of a series of years together , the same total numbers have been found to die in the same situations , in the equal successive periods ...
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... quantity of mortality is quite inconsiderable when compared to the general quantity of sickness ; though this is a subject on which it is impossible to form a calculation . Men are not always short- lived because they are unhealthy ...
... quantity of mortality is quite inconsiderable when compared to the general quantity of sickness ; though this is a subject on which it is impossible to form a calculation . Men are not always short- lived because they are unhealthy ...
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