increase since.

5. I have had no cold, of any consequence, for the last three years; at
which time I substituted cold water for tea and coffee, and commenced
using cold water for washing about my head and neck and for shaving,
which I continued through the year.

6. I have not eaten animal food for about eighteen months.

7. Two years previous to the entire change the quantity was great, but
there had been a gradual diminution.

8. It was. (See fifth answer.)

9. More so, in my case.

10. I believe the health of both laborers and students would be
improved.

11. I have generally avoided eating cucumbers; otherwise I have not.

Thy assured friend,
GEO. W. BAKER.

LETTER XII--FROM JOHN HOWLAND, JR., ESQ.

NEW BEFORD, 9th month, 10th day, 1835.

FRIEND,--As I have lived nearly three years upon a vegetable diet, I
cheerfully comply with thy request.

1. My bodily strength has been increased; and I can now endure much more
exercise than formerly, without fatigue.

2. They are more agreeable; and I am now free from that dull, heavy
feeling, which I used to experience after my meals.

3. My mind is much clearer; and I am free from that depression of
spirits, to which I was formerly subject.

4. I was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed.
I had frequent and severe attacks of headache, which I now rarely have;
and when they do occur they are very light, compared with what they
formerly were.

5. I have had fewer colds, and those much lighter than formerly.

6. About three years.

7. I used to eat animal food for breakfast and dinner, with coffee for
drink, at those meals; and tea for my third meal, with bread and butter.

8. Milk for breakfast, and cold water for the other two meals.

9. I have found it more so; inasmuch as the use of it, with the
substitution of bread, made from _coarse, unbolted wheat flour_, instead
of superfine, has removed my costiveness entirely.

10. I do.

11. I consider potatoes and rice as the most healthy, and confine myself
principally to the former.

I would remark that during the season of fruits, I eat freely of them,
with milk; and consider them to be healthy.

JOHN HOWLAND, JR.

LETTER XIII.--FROM DR. W. H. WEBSTER.

BATAVIA, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1835.

SIR,--Some months since, I read your inquiries on diet in the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal; and subsequently in the Journal of Medical
Sciences, Philadelp