New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-15

obse7rc, with attention, what Kinds OF i'ol-ll
the Thousand localities situations, conshtutonai
peculiarities and habits-best favored the dem
tion ,,...,..a
Letter third. STYLED The Letter for Phyioso-
nh, is a strange letter indeed. Say you me
tact that Vegetarian has made dinner OF rice
six DAYS in succession, Goes not form reasoii
with him for changing it for dinner OF beans on
rho seventh On the contrary, he would NE ms
rice better on the seventh day than on the sixth
on the eighth better than on the seventh ana
thus on. for ought know, did nothing occur 20
prevent interruption, to HES end. ms loGh loon.
rather orf1e still Mr., Alcott, you may be right
But cannot an individual educate the taste as to
relish beafsteak without condiments, save a
little butter, perhaps till the seventh day also
Is the fact that Negetarians have no bad taste
in the mouth or gnawing and craving, PROOF tnae
animal food is the cause of such sensations IN the
opposite party To use the language OF me
Letter for Philosophy are there not other things
that tend to impair or promote health beside tood
! think there are Mr. Acott and the grand secret
of better health in Negetarans Is not owing 10
the exclusion of meat, but to the rigidlty pIac-
ticed in :" other things by these setdenylng
geniuses together, perhaps, with rejection OF
condiments which by no means are necessary 70
hesh-eaters.
The improvement of health, il it exist among
Veeetarans, is 10 more the sequence OF vegeta-
Bile diet alone, than any arrangement IN others, is
the effect OF flesh IN mixed diet 1T may depend
upon the exclusion OF high seasoned soups and
sauces. spices vinegar, and also tobacco and spir,
ituous liquors, all OF which are generally rejected
with the flesh, and which have direct medicinal
action up the system. We Sh01ad take food tor
the nutriment alone, enough OF disease is produced
by taking medicines as such.
1t has been stated that persons rejecting hesh
have better general healfh than others, and the
Ground taken that the 1ndiridN0l senses are i'm
proved. among which that partake bountltully OF
This Improvement. are sight, smell and taste.
believe, Mr.. Alcott, that all impressions made
upon the healthy system OF man tending to I'M
pair it, must be made upon the Nervous portion OF
that system; so likewise an impression made
upon system diseased, tending to restore health
must be made upon the nerves
Now believe it is true in the economy OF man,
that parts the most susceptible OF pam orpleasure
have nerves supplying those parts more mlnutely
ramifed. as well as being more abundantly
supplied By the proper irrtant is not the eye
the seat of excrucating pain, and again the gus
tatory or lingua nerve the source OF great pleas
ure to the epicure, proving that the function OF
organs thus highly supplied With nerves Is subtitle
easily affected to intensity by trivial causes, and
that the nerves themselves are highly susceptible.
These individual senses depend altogether upon
the state Of the generan nervous system and as the
standard of the latter is elevated or depressed, so
YOU have the sense, In greater or less perfection
think therefore if true that these senses are so
much improved in vegetarans, 1t is whollySattrb
utabe to the better general health OF these persons
and not as you suppose, to the exclusion OF meat
Genera Nor II. 1850 CHARLES BELL.