VEGETARIAN DOCTORS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 3

VEGETARIAN DOCTORS.

: A number of;medical men in England issued a remarkable manifesto on' August 31 in favour of a vegetarian diet. The following is th'otoxt:—" .:'•' ' ■'''"','/ : >.'.'''v .?■ ■ ■ "We, the undersigned medical men, haviVcarefully considered the subject of vegetarian" ;sm in its scientific and havin" put; its principles to the practical test of expe'ri-' ;oncc, hereby record our /emphatic opinion that-not only is the practice based on' a truly scientific foundation, ,but that it is conducive to the best physical of human life" ; "The diet of vegetarianism provides all the constituents necessary to'the building up of the human body, and those constituents as proved, not by themisleading..tests of''theohemicarand physical laboratory, but bv the experience of numerous persons livin" under normal conditions, are at least as digestible and as assimilable'as the corresponding substances obtained from flesh. »,i 7 ., ."Wo therefore claim vegd'tarihriism) to be .fwicntifically a sound and satisfactory svstcm or ChctCtlCS;, ; : .!•.'; ■ .; ''Moreover./considering; tho liability of ■cattle and other animals to ailments anil dis ' eases of various kinds, and Win; pure: of rood obtained from .vegetarian,sources vV .arc convinced that -abstinence from' flesh fo-irl is not only more conducive to health' but from an aesthetic point of viev.-, i s inco'inn-tr ably superior.' -..,,:■ ~ '' '''Robert Kcll.'.M.D'.".;. ■ (leorgo Blaclc.'M.n., Isdi n A. J. H. Crcspi, JIJi.CS, • 'H. H.S. Dbrman.'jM.D.; i ' 1 , 1 ' •'Albert ftressiynjl, M.A., JT.O '.]■'• "' >: ■ •''. ', Walter R. f Had\veh, JI-.D L 7? Pi'tj : ' ■; ■'. :.. '■M.«,q;„5..-' .. ■ /.■':: ; r-r>\ , .7; Stenson ITooker, aM.I). '.■ <;..", . ./Augustus Johnston, M.Ji. ; M/R qn -| '. ' 11. Valeiitine Knagcs,'/ J] T? p c?' '' ' ' L.R.C.P. "■•' '■-•'■ ■,T f ?r?' Alfred Bolsnn,' M.l).' '■' ' '•/•'.'> . , ■•■' ■ Robert TL Porks; M.D., F.R. n K i: John Reid, M.8.;.C.J1. , , ' •George B. Waiters, M.D. ,'