Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-10-04

III. A1itCnCOSh VI nClSt, MT. OTd-
ham, Sir Everard Home. Pope the poet,
Sir Richard Phillips, Sir Isaac Newton,
Mr.. Newton, another distinguished au-
thor, Howard the philanihropist, Gen
Elliot. Shelly the poet, Pythagoras, the
Able Gallant. Homer says 5000 years
ago, vegetable eaters were the longest liv
ed and honestest of men. Prof. Lawrence
author of Lectures on Physiology, 70
ology, and the Natural History of Man,
and Prof of Anatomy and Surgery ia
the Royal College of Surgeons, LONDON,
says, That men can be perfectly nourish-
ed, and their bodily and mental capabili.
ties fully developed in any climate, by a
diet purely vegetable admits of abundant
proof from experience" Mr. Thomas
Bell, Lecturer on the Anatomy and Dis
eases of the teeth at Guys Hospital, and
Surgeon DENTS: TO that Institution, in his
physiological Observations on the Nat
ural food OF Man deduced from the char
acter Of teeth, says, the opinion which
| venture to give has not been hastily
formed. 1t is no: | think going too far to
say that every fact connected with human
organization goes 10 prove that man was
originally formed ffuit-eating animal.
This opinion is principally derived from
the formation Of the teeth, digestive Or
gans, skin and limbs" Linaeus the
Naturalist who lived 100 years ago says
that mans organization compared with
other animals shows that fruits and escu-
lent vegetables constitute his most suita-
Bile food" Baron Cuvier, who is consid-
cred the highest human authority on any
question in natural history, says, 1.-The
natural food OF man, therefore, Judging
from his structure, appears TO consist OF
fruits, roots, and other succulent parts OF
vegetables Now if enough has been
shown to settle this point, let vegetable
diet be adopted. will simply say 10 re-
lation to unripe vegetables, that the whole
class OF them should be let alone. Such
as apples, currents, corn, pears, beans,
cucumbers, &c.
have thus endeavored to show what
the suitable kind Of food is; and we come
next TO the due quantity. cannot say
how much an Individual ought to eat,as it
varies at different ages, and in different
occupations. But / will venture to say
that mankind almost universally eat far
too much. DR.. Franklin says, in gen
era, mankind since the improvement of
cookery eat about twice as much as nature
requires" An American medical re-
viewer says that 'almost every man, wo-
man and child in this country. habitually
eats and drinks twice as much every day,
on moderate estimate, as is necessary
Or. Cheene says "most of all The chroni-
cal diseases are owing to repleton." Dr..
Chauncey says "some people dig their
graves with their teeth He might have
said many people Another medical writ
er says that intemperance in diet des
troys the bulk of mankind" Ii is an old
maxim, that gIuttony kills more than the
sword, pestilence and famine. The Ed.
inburg Review says that "gIutlony and
inlemperance are the source of two-thirds
of the diseases which embitter the life of
man. The American Quarterly Re-
view says, "the due degree of mper-
ance would add one-third to the duration
Of human life" DR.. Reed says "glut-
tony is one of the most frequent conduct
ors to the grave. 1t is one of the unen-
viable privileges of the comparatively
wealthy to be able 10 gormandize to their
own destruction" DIR. Caralheodore of
Paris says, g in general all men eat more
than natural appetite requires" Sir John
Sinclair says, many are the causes of
ill health; but the principal one is the
variety and excess of food. 1t cannot be
doubted that among the higher order of
society almost all the chronical diseases,
many Of the infrmilies Of old age and
shoriness of life in general are owing 10
repletion. In polished nations indeed,
men commonly eat a, least double the
quantity OF food necessary, and often or
5 times more than they ought 10 do"
DR.: Beaumont says. "a quantity not ex-
ceeding the wants of the economy is OF
! prime importance to health. The ouan.