The return to nature, or, A defence of the vegetable regimen : with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family / by John Frank Newton, Esq.

  • Newton, John Frank.
Date:
1811
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Credit: The return to nature, or, A defence of the vegetable regimen : with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family / by John Frank Newton, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    pronounced; his sinewy form gradually les- sening from the shoulders to the feet; in every limb, vigour and elasticity. The woman more than beautiful; her eyes sparkling with mirth, or brimming with sweetness; happy in her own existence, and increasing the happiness of all around her. Not Venus, first dripping from the ocean, could have been purer or more lovely than such a female. Before I conclude, I will beg leave to reca- pitulate what has been said, or implied, in this treatise. It appears, then, that diseased actions become suspended by the adoption of the regimen dis- covered by Dr. Lambe: that although parox- ysms of disease may be renewed from internal changes which are constantly taking place in the body, they decline in severity, and gradu- ally wear out; but that from the trials hitherto made, two years at least are necessary to pro- duce a radical effect on the constitution ; though great relief is sometimes obtained im- mediately, and sometimes after the expiration of a few months. That if in certain persons a considerable paleness and shrinking of the fea- tures are occasioned by this mode of living, it is