THE PROPER FOOD OF MAN; BEING AN ATTEMPT TO PROVE, FROM HISTORY, ANATOMY, "Parcite, mortales, dapibus temerare nefandis LONDON: FRINTED BY G. J. PALMER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND. ΤΟ THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE VEGETARIAN SOCIETY, THIS edition of Fruits and Farinacea is respectfully dedicated, with the best wishes of the Author for the universal adoption of those principles which it is the object of the Society to disseminate. Malton, June 12, 1849. PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. Ir appeared to the author that the advocacy of a fruit and farinaceous diet would possess too little attraction for the public to require a second edition. It has been with some degree of surprise, therefore, that he has received many urgent solicitations for the issue of a new and enlarged edition, at such a price as would place it within the reach of a more extended circle of readers. The leniency with which the work was treated in the medical reviews of this country has been a source of much satisfaction to one who, not being a member of the medical profession, has dared to meddle with a subject requiring perhaps a more extensive acquaintance with medicine and its collateral sciences than he ventures to profess; but it has been still more gratifying to receive from various professional men an unhesitating approval of the opinions which he has endeavoured to support and illustrate. It is hoped the day is not far distant, when the subject will be thought of such importance by the faculty generally, that one or more of its members will employ the whole of |