arge proportion of flesh meat, and drank tea and coffee.
I had much impaired my health by such indulgences. I hardly need to say
that my health has greatly improved, and is now quite good and uniform.

I think that physicians, in prescribing for the removal of disease,
should pay much more regard to the diet of their patients, and
administer less of powerful medicine, than is customary with gentlemen
of this profession at large.

Yours, etc.,
HENRY H. BROWN.

LETTER VIII.--FROM DR. FRANKLIN KNOX.

KINSTON,[5] N. C., June 23, 1837.

DEAR SIR,--Your letter of the 22d July has been hitherto unanswered,
through press of business.

I consider an exclusive vegetable diet as of the utmost consequence in
most diseases, especially in those chronic affections or morbid states
of the system which are not commonly considered as diseases; and I think
that, in these cases, such a diet is too often overlooked, even by
physicians.

Yours, truly,
F. KNOX.

LETTER IX.--FROM A HIGHLY RESPECTABLE PHYSICIAN.

[The following letter, received last autumn, is from a medical
gentleman, in a distant part of the country, whose name, for particular
reasons, we stand pledged not to give to the world. The facts, however,
may be relied on; and they are exceedingly important and interesting.]

DEAR SIR,--Your letter was duly received. I proceed to say that, since I
settled in this town, my attacks of epilepsy[6] have occurred in the
following order:

1833.
Nov. 18. One at 11 P. M. Severe.
" 19. " " "
" 24. Nineteen, from 4 A. M. to 3 P. M. Frightful.

1835.
Jan. 13. One at 4 A. M. }
" 15. " " } Milder.
" 16. Two at 2 and 4 A. M. }

Thus it appears that I have enjoyed a longer immunity since the last,
than for some years prior. I have maintained total abstinence from
flesh, fish, or fowl, for two and a half years, namely, from March 1835
to the present time. That this happy immunity from a most obstinate
disease is to be attributed solely to my abstinence from animal food, I
do not feel prepared to assert; but that my general health has been
better, my attacks of disease far milder, my vigor of mind and body
greater, my mental perceptions clearer and more acute, and my enjoyment
of life, on the whole, very essentially increased, I am fully prepared
to prove.

I have, however, found it nearly as essential f