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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... species of impiety , and to avow this dissent as no better than downright madness . It has been taught , both by ancient and modern philoso- phers , that the universe is , upon the whole , a perfect work , or the best that could have ...
... species of impiety , and to avow this dissent as no better than downright madness . It has been taught , both by ancient and modern philoso- phers , that the universe is , upon the whole , a perfect work , or the best that could have ...
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... species . I omit the still darker shades of the picture ; the tragedies which perpet- ually embitter domestic life ; our crowded hospitals , from the gates of which shoals of supplicants are , by necessity , repelled ; our surgical ...
... species . I omit the still darker shades of the picture ; the tragedies which perpet- ually embitter domestic life ; our crowded hospitals , from the gates of which shoals of supplicants are , by necessity , repelled ; our surgical ...
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... species . Even dogs are said to be subject to it . It is asserted also , apparently upon good authority , that it affects both sheep and horned cattle . This is the disease which has , with the greatest confidence , been ascribed to the ...
... species . Even dogs are said to be subject to it . It is asserted also , apparently upon good authority , that it affects both sheep and horned cattle . This is the disease which has , with the greatest confidence , been ascribed to the ...
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... species of idiotcy of the worst kind , under the name of Cretinism , is also prevalent , and is obviously the effect of the same local circumstances . These miserable objects are radically defective in their organization : they are ...
... species of idiotcy of the worst kind , under the name of Cretinism , is also prevalent , and is obviously the effect of the same local circumstances . These miserable objects are radically defective in their organization : they are ...
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... species . Bills of mortality , surveys , or parochial registers , have afforded the materials of these ob- servations . To illustrate this position , I shall make use of the statements and inferences contained in the essays which form a ...
... species . Bills of mortality , surveys , or parochial registers , have afforded the materials of these ob- servations . To illustrate this position , I shall make use of the statements and inferences contained in the essays which form a ...
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