Dr. Nichols' penny vegetarian cookery : the science and art of selecting and preparing a pure, healthful, and sufficient diet.

  • Nichols, Thomas Low, 1815-1901.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Dr. Nichols' penny vegetarian cookery : the science and art of selecting and preparing a pure, healthful, and sufficient diet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    five pounds a head upon a fashionable dinner, as they do even in Man¬ chester, their Bishop says, when every natural requirement can be supplied for a few pence ? And why not put an end to the horrible cruelties in the carriage and slaughter of animals, and all the horrors attending the unhealthy and unbeautiful habit of eating the dead bodies of our ^ fellow-creatures—one step removed from the cannibalism of savages ? On one side the beauty of an Eden life cheering every sense ; on the other the pig-stye, the butchery, and all the cruelties and horrors of a carnivorous diet. FOOD DIAGRAMS, Showing at a glance the proportions of Flesh and tissue forming, or nitrogenous elements, albumen, fibrine, gluten, etc., Heat and Force producing, or carbonaceous elements, oil, sugar, starch, etc., and Water, in several common foods, according to the best chemical authorities. —Wheat. 2.— White Bread. 3—Oatmeal. 4. Rice. Tissue Forming. Tissue Forming. Tissue Forming. Tissue Forming. Heat and Force. •> Heat and Force. Heat and Force. ! ■ i Heat and Force. , 1 Water. . Water. Water. - Water. 5.—Potatoes. 6.—Peas. 7.—Beans. 8.-Butcher s Meat, Tissue Forming. . ■' 1 Heat and Force. Tissue Forming. Tissue Forming. Tissue Forming. ' i Heat and Force. Water. ■ Heat and Force. Heat and Force. L Water. Water. f Water. \ _;_1