Progress Volume 6 ; a monthly magazine of advanced thought

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...began to wax indignant at such a misuse of the villi of intestines. I referred to the case in the books of the seagull who was trained to eat peas, and was found to have converted the thin sac of a bird of prey into a gizzard. "I shouldn't like to take such liberties with my inside." "Ohyes; Hunter's case one hundred years ago. Well, I consider that after four years' experience I am just beginning to attain the full benefit of my non-flesh diet. I eat my food with the utmost relish, I don't know what it is to have an ache; I have a keener appetite for my work, I walk ten or twelve miles a day, and I belong to the German gymnasium at which one of our leaders is a vegetarian." "The hospitals would be in a bad way if your system obtained," I said. "Hospitals? hospitals are a disgrace n any state; they show a wrong condition of things. They are large experiment houses. Why there was the case of the enquiry at the Hospital when they nearly killed half the people by giving them some saltof-soda or other." "Yet I think I have seen your advice to correspondents 'consult a surgeon.'" "Yes, but I always repent it. In time people will demand to have hygienic surgeons. I get a good many people who will have nothing to do with drugs. The ordinary doctor, you see, don't give any advice; he merely drugs. 'Take this medicine and come again in two days.' You know the old doctors's book, don't you? Dies Veneris and the Ides of March, we will suppose, at the top, and then the patient's name and address, and every two days 'red mixture,' pills, plaster and the rest of them with the price in the cash column. If the patient can't be trusted, you have N. N. in the margin, nisi nummuli, which may be freely rendered ' cash down...