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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎47r] (98/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1892
VEGETABLE
583
depressing, and for the moment I followed Tennyson's example.
Mais je ne reculais que pour mi and with the first
breath of spring, when all those delightful fruits and leaves and roots
which Eaphael did not disdain to paint as ornaments in his loggias
reappear on our tables, I made my second methodical and successful
attempt, eliminating week by week one kind of animal food only,
and replacing it by some equally nutritious vegetable preparation.
The very strict ascetic sect of vegetarians who only live upon
seeds and uncooked food look down upon their weaker brethren who
eat eggs and milk and butter, in fact, everything which does not
necessitate the taking of life, which appears to me to be the only
reasonable standpoint. I will not, therefore, enter into discussions
whether our teeth are those of a carnivorous or frugivorous animal,
though the latter appears to me the most likely theory, as fruits are
the only edibles we can eat and digest without cooking; everything
else requires the aid of fire to make it palatable and wholesome.
It is certain that the giving up of animal food cures many illnesses
which no medicines can reach. Everybody knows the bad effects of
butcher's meat in gout and rheumatism. In affections of the heart it
is often the only remedy, and the wonderful results are not difficult
to explain in a case where rest often means cure, if one reflects that
whilst the meat-eater's heart has seventy-two beats in the minute the
vegetarian's only has fifty-eight beats, therefore 20,000 beats less in
the course of the twenty-four hours. Insomnia and nervousness are
affected in the same way ; there is less wear and more repose in the
constitution. I could enumerate many other illnesses in which
vegetable diet does marvels, but will only mention those of the skin.
Most vegetarians have unusually clear and often beautiful complexions.
I need only remind those who know them of the old Carthusian and
Trappist monks, who all have smooth white and pink
Angelico kind of faces, which are not found amongst the Orders that
do not habitually live on Lenten fare. The splendid teeth of the
Italian peasantry, whenever touch meat, speak for themselves, and it
is the same in other countries where the people live under similar
conditions. It is foolish to associate vegetable diet with temperance,
as so many do : they are quite astonished to see a vegetable-eater
drinking wine or beer. One thing, however, is true, viz. that it is far
easier to cure a drunkard if you deprive him of meat, because, as
Dr. Jackson, head-doctor of the Asylum for Dipsomaniacs, Damville,
United States, says, ' it is clear that meat contains some not nutri
tious particles, which excite the nervous system so much that it at
last becomes exhausted and unstrung. In this state of exhaustion
unhealthy reaction follows, which brings on a paroxysm and violent
desire for spirits and the excitement which they create.' G-. Biinge,
professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Bale, writes,
in his book on vegetarianism, p. 33 : ' The appetite of the drunkard

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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