An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ce, * [which, certainly, agree with them better. ] + . : Lord Monboddo fays, ‘¢ though i think that man has, from nature, the capacity of liveing, either by prey, or upon the fruits of the earth, It appears to me, that, by nature, and in his ori- ginal ftate, he is a frugivorous animal, and that he only becomes an animal of prey reg acquire’d habit. * * Emilius, i, 286. Brasfavolus reports, of the younger daughter of Frederick, king of Naples, that the could not eat any kind of fleth, nor fo much as tafte of it; and, as oft as fhe put any bit of it into her mouth, fhe was feize’d with a vehe- ment fyncopé, and falling to the earth, and rolling herfelf thereupon, would lamentablely fhriek out. This fhe would continue to do for the fpace of half an hour, after fhe was re- turn’d to herfelf. (Turners Hiflory of remarkable providences, 1697, fo. part 2,-c. 2, § 6.) + Of males and females, chriften’d, within the general bil of mortality, from December 9, 1800, to December 15, 180r, were in all - ~ ~ - apres 17814 Whereof dye’d under two yearsofage - 5395 a between two and five - 2063 , 7458 fo that near oe of thefe tender care perith in the firft five years of their life; moft likely in confequence of their bee ing ftuf’d with fiefh-meat, which is unnatural to them, and, cannot be digefted at fo early an age : this horrid practice gives rife to.a variety of fatal difeafees, which carry them off; nor can fuch a numerous obituary be imputeédto any other caules, 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
