Nature's own book, or practical results of a vegetable diet, illustrated by facts and experiments of many years' practice / by A. Nicholson.

  • Nicholson, A.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Nature's own book, or practical results of a vegetable diet, illustrated by facts and experiments of many years' practice / by A. Nicholson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    PREFACE. The following pages are written with a sincere desire that they may be read, and be read with that attention that the subject (not the style) demands. They are written with a view to direct some dispirited dyspeptic to nature’s fount, where he can be healed; some toil-worn student, grown pale by the midnight lamp, how he can find rest to his body and wings to his mind; some tattered and torn inebriate, how he can rise out of the mire, put on a new coat, and slake his thirst for ever from the love of the burning lava that has scathed his vitals and fren- zied his brain. They are written to admonish some tea-sipping maiden of the wrinkles and hollow eye she is prematurelv in- viting; some snuff-taking, tobacco-eating devotee of the sallow skin, the nasal voice, the besmeared teeth, and offensive breath, which are the undeviating companions of the filthy weed; and some care-worn mother how she may keep out the druggist’s shop from her closet, and prevent night watchings over her too highly fed children, and eat her bread with a cheerful heart with the happy ones she loves, knowing that while she follows nature she follows God, and while she follows God she is safe. Will you read it ? This work makes no pretences to science. It gives no details of Anatomy, Surgery, or Medicine. Neither is it a hap ha~ sard budget of odds and ends, flung together to be hung up in a dark closet for the hurried housekeeper in some exigency t° find a string or bit of edging to eke out an inefficient cuff or collar. It is a work of fourteen years’ practice, carrying out principles, and making the experiments here introduced. It is a work not to be proven, but a work that has been proven.