The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . ofstrength, and sustain entire privation of food with much less sufferingilian flesh-eaters. The appetite of vegetable-eaters is invariably goodand food has always a keen relish, while it often fails with flesh-eatersrequiring frequent changes of dishes, or a variety of seasonings, torender it palatable. Digestion with the vegetarian is unattended withthat disturbance, heat, irritation, oppression of the stomach, and dullness or drowsiness of the head, which flesh-eaters generally experienee after dinner, and which some phys
The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . ofstrength, and sustain entire privation of food with much less sufferingilian flesh-eaters. The appetite of vegetable-eaters is invariably goodand food has always a keen relish, while it often fails with flesh-eatersrequiring frequent changes of dishes, or a variety of seasonings, torender it palatable. Digestion with the vegetarian is unattended withthat disturbance, heat, irritation, oppression of the stomach, and dullness or drowsiness of the head, which flesh-eaters generally experienee after dinner, and which some physiologists, on the mistakesupposition that it was r«tural, have called the fever of , sleepiness, and mental stupidity, so common after a fulfeal wfth flesh-eaters, are wholly unknown to vegetarians, when theiother habits are correct. These can resume any bodily or mentaltabor immediately after a meal, with incomparably less discomfoit, arid •eater immunity from evil consequerces, than can flesh-eiders. DIETETIC CHARACTER OF MAN 411 Fig. TSB HmiAN SKELETON WITH THAT OF TH ( l»AWO-OOI*MO U2 DIETETICS. All the mental passions at the vegetarian are moro goveri:uble andbetter balanced, more easily regulated by the judgment and controlled!>y thn will, less violent, but more enduring than those of firmest and most vigorous structures of body are found amongv?2Ttnble-eaters, in proof of which we need only refer to the toilingi-iiliions Europe and the Eastern nations. Vegetable-eaters possessf i and flexibility of moving fibres, and a tenuity and purity. .irculating fluids, which enable them to work their bodies and brainstjore severely, more constantly, with greater ease and facility, and w;th(eas wear and tear, than flesh-eaters can; and when fatigued byexcessive exertion of body or mind, they will recover, by resting, in amuch less period of time. Extremes of heat and cold, and exposures to atmospnenc vicissi
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