nths old I was the unfortunate victim of vaccination poisoning,
and for years afterwards was continually in the doctor's hands.
The best medical men in this country and America were consulted;
for months daily visits were paid to a noted Chicago specialist
in the hope that he might be able to effect a cure, but it was a
case of "love's labour lost," and, instead of improving, my
condition grew steadily worse.

During all these years, drugging was constantly going on, the
pills and potions ordered were religiously swallowed, and,
strange as it may seem, the ordeal was survived. Flesh meat was
eaten daily, and, of all the members of the medical profession
consulted, not one of them ever hinted that a change of diet
might be beneficial.

When 17 years of age my attention was drawn to an article in _The
Phonetic Journal_ on the advantages of a non-flesh diet. By this
time, being thoroughly tired of taking endless quantities of
useless, poisonous and expensive drugs, I decided, there and
then, to throw "physic to the dogs," making up my mind that if
death did come, and it seemed to be staring me in the face, I
would, at any rate, die a vegetarian.

Within six months the most dangerous symptom had completely
disappeared and has never recurred, but, although greatly
benefitting by the new diet, and enjoying on the whole fairly
good health, yet there were frequent attacks of rheumatism,
lumbago and neuralgia; dyspepsia, with its attendant pain and
flatulence, often made life miserable; now and again the liver
would rise up in rebellion, bringing in its train vertigo,
blurred vision and severe headaches; constipation, that bane of
modern life, was a source of endless trouble, in fact, for many
years the enema had to be used once or twice a week, and last,
but worst of all, came those sharp, shooting, lancinating pains,
one of the premonitory symptoms of cancer.

Obviously, there was still something radically wrong somewhere,
and on retiring from practice, a great deal of time and attention
was devoted to the subject, innumerable experiments were made,
and, ultimately, results obtained, the value of which cannot be
exaggerated.

Five years ago the uncooked food diet was commenced, and from the
very first week a steady improvement took place. The constipation
vanished as