Hints on various subjects connected with our business / by A.I. Mathews & Co.
- Date:
- 1856
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints on various subjects connected with our business / by A.I. Mathews & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![8PI0KS. It is the fashion with those ainji^ing fanatics, the vege- ■ tarians, to decry not only the use of meats, but of spices. Both of these classes- of food are deemed too stimulating for our-feilk and water, humanity. Meats, they tell us, make us ferocious <aud sanguinary—impart to us a Jjull-dog tempera- ment. Could Mr. Graham have had 'his^way,, he would have ' annihilated his own blood, wdshy-was-hy as it was, and substi- tuted for it some- farinaceous , coddle of his owm invention. ThO poor man was apparently disgusted with his own mechan- ism ; looked at his muscle—what little there w as of it—as a ■ part of the primeval curse; w’hile fat w'as rigorously excluded from his tissues, . . - He attained-to-a w'ondi’ous success in his new system of diet, managed to make himself a thin, gander-shanked, ca- daverous-looking specimen of humanity; wofried through a life of hypochondria and dyspepsia, and died, in'middle age, mourned by those who pitied his delusions, and by-the baud of sisters he had enlisted in his doctrines. But thousands of people -have road his earnest -denuncia-- tions of spices, and placed implicit confidence in‘them. Thev are voted too heating for the system, engendering in it a]l manner of bad humors, impairing the tone' of the stomach,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2806544x_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
