New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-12

| the resuIt of the experiment was precisely what
| DR. Thompson describes. In order TO understand
vegetariansm it is necessary to nave some prae
| teal experience of it, for the facts IN regard 10
| making the change from mode of diet to an
other are follows:
| .Dr Russell T Trail who a friend Of
! Horace Greeley and who died in 1873 was prob
| ably the best known vegetarian of his day Edu-
Gated as a regular physician, he WAS a vegetarian
of the srictest kind thirty years of his
life and conducted Florence. n. j. sanatorium
in connection with school for vegetarian doctors
His experience of the system was therefore inn
mense, both with we'll people and invalids. all of
whom made the great change of diet under his
personal care In the long period of years that he
conducted this establishment he found but one per-
son who could make the change without the loss
of flesh which is generally looked upon sign
of impaired health This one person was young
man who to the school from the West. All
the others showed signs of physical disturbance by
loss of weight, and generally In other ways DIR.
Trail described the process of change Of
depuration and cleansing of the system While the
change was going on he always treated patient
like an invalid forbidding the usual amount of
physical and mental work or exercise TO which
. the person was accustomed. Even reading which
required any effort Of mind prohibited. and
when a literary woman disobeyed DIR. Trails in
structions and privately continued to write for
publication. he detected her by the sowness with
which she made her progress toward recovery.
This fact shows how serious the effect of the
: physical change is in The severity of
ii was always just in proportion to the health of
the patient. People in good health who came as
students made the change quickly and with but
slight disturbance. but the inmates of the
torium seemed generally be literally breaking
down in health. sometimes losing twenty pounds,
and often feeling dyspetic weak and nervous the
last degree. AS the symptoms We're however, ex-
pected and understood. the patients had but to
persevere, and all the apparently alarming troubles
passed away. They returned their original
weight, and found themselves distinctly benefited
by the change which they had passed through
with a very marked improvement whatever form
CT chronic illness had induced them to try the
vegetarian system. All this know from who
spent six months at Dr. Trails sanatorium. and
not only felt convinced that he owed his life to
the doctor, but who has lived according his
theories in Il slightly modified form but Under
tire vesetarianism. for over thirty years.
j could. If 1 chose. tell q long story of the bene-
fits which have myself derived from the same
system, and of the exceptional strength and good
general health which have enjoyed. in spite of
two different forms of invalidism which
entirely passed and gone. Few women have had
more of that strength which DIR. Thompson de-
ciares is Kissing IN the vegetarian than have
had during the last twenty-five years. during which
that strength and my power of recuperation have
been several times thoroughly tested, and during
which have been especially congratulated by ply
stcians upon my possession of those powers.
have only attempted to give very small por-
ton of the many answers that be given to Dr.
Thompson's assertions in regard this subject
but II he. any one interested In il. would obtain
Sylvester Grahams book, The Science of Health"
or any other good work or pamphlet vegetarian
ism. many more such answers would be found to
the question of whether flesh eating with its at
tendant evils is necessary for strength of the
human body VEGETARIAN
New-York April Z. 1907