uniformly open.

10. I should not think it would.

11. I have lived principally on bread, butter, and cheese, and a few
dried vegetables.

I was born March 31, 1764. In 1833, when mowing, to quench thirst, I
drank about a gill of cold water, _after_ about as much milk and water;
and the same year, some molasses and water; but they did not answer the
purpose. But when I rinsed my mouth with cold water, it allayed my
thirst.

(Signed)
WM. VINCENT.

LETTER XVI.--FROM L. R. BRADLEY, BY DR. GEO. H. PERRY.

HOPKINTON, R. I., Dec. 23, 1835.

SIR,--I deem it necessary, first, to mention the situation of my health,
at the time of commencing abstinence from animal food. I was recovering
from an illness of a _nervous fever_. A sudden change respecting my food
not sitting well, rendered it necessary for me to abstain from all
kinds, excepting dry wheat bread and gruel, for several weeks. By
degrees I returned to my former course of diet, but as yet not to its
full extent, as I cannot partake of animal food of any kind whatever,
nor of vegetables cooked therewith.

1. Diminished.

2. ----

3. I do not perceive the mind to be clearer, and the power of
investigation less.

4. Distress in the stomach and pain in the head removed.

5. ----

6. Six years and ten months.

7. Unusual proportion of animal food.

8. The first year, I drank only warm water, sweetened; since that, tea.

9. ----

10. I do not.

11. I find _beets_ particularly hard to digest.

L. R. B.

The foregoing statements and answers are in her own way and manner.

Yours, etc.,
GEO. H. PERRY.

LETTER XVII.--FROM DR. L. W. SHERMAN.

FALMOUTH, Mass., March 28, 1835.

SIR,--In compliance with the request you recently made in the Medical
Journal, I inclose the following answers to the queries relative to
regimen you have propounded. They are given by a lady, whose experience,
intelligence, and discernment, have eminently qualified her to answer
them. She, with myself, is equally interested with you in having this
important question settled, and is extremely happy that you have
undertaken to do it. This lady is now fifty years of age; her
constitution naturally is good; her early habits were active, and her
diet simple, until twenty years of age. After that, until within a few
years, her living consisted of all kinds of meats and delicacies, with
wine after dinners, etc., etc.

1. Her bodily strength was