lume. The case was that of Dr. Taylor, of
England.

[7] See pages 13 and 23.

[8] This fact, and certain discussions on the subject of temperance, led
me to abstain, about the years 1841 and 1842, entirely from all drink
for a long time. Indeed, I made two of these experiments; in one of
which I abstained nine months and nineteen days, and in the other
fourteen months and one or two days; except that in the latter case I
ate, literally, for one or two successive days, while working hard at
haying, one or two bowls a day of bread and water. But these were
experiments _merely_--the experiments made by a medical man who
preferred making experiments on himself to making them on others; and
they never deserved the misconstruction which was put upon them by
several persons, who, in other respects, were very sensible men. "The
author" never believed with Dr. Lambe, of London, that man is not a
drinking animal.

CHAPTER V.

TESTIMONY OF OTHER MEDICAL MEN, BOTH OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES.

General Remarks.--Testimony of Dr. Cheyne.--Dr.
Geoffroy.--Vanquelin and Percy.--Dr. Pemberton.--Sir John
Sinclair.--Dr. James.--Dr. Cranstoun.--Dr. Taylor.--Drs.
Hufeland and Abernethy.--Sir Gilbert Blane.--Dr. Gregory.--Dr.
Cullen.--Dr. Rush.--Dr. Lambe.--Prof. Lawrence.--Dr.
Salgues.--Author of "Sure Methods."--Baron Cuvier.--Dr. Luther
V. Bell.--Dr. Buchan.--Dr. Whitlaw.--Dr. Clark.--Prof.
Mussey.--Drs. Bell and Condie.--Dr. J. V. C. Smith.--Mr.
Graham.--Dr. J. M. Andrews, Jr.--Dr. Sweetser.--Dr.
Pierson.--Physician in New York.--Females' Encyclopedia.--Dr.
Van Cooth.--Dr. Beaumont.--Sir Everard Home.--Dr.
Jennings.--Dr. Jarvis.--Dr. Ticknor.--Dr. Coles.--Dr.
Shew.--Dr. Morrill.--Dr. Bell.--Dr. Jackson.--Dr.
Stephenson.--Dr. J. Burdell.--Dr. Smethurst.--Dr.
Schlemmer.--Dr. Curtis.--Dr. Porter.

GENERAL REMARKS.

The number of physicians, and surgeons, and medical men, whose testimony
is brought to bear on the subject of diet, in the chapter which follows,
is by no means as great as it might have been. There are few writers on
anatomy, physiology, materia medica, or disease, who have not, either
directly or indirectly, given their testimony in favor of a mild and
vegetable diet for persons affected with certain chronic diseases. And
there is scarcely a writer on hygiene, or even on diet, who has not done
much more than this, and at times hinted at