rty. This is the only case of the
kind within my knowledge. I have practiced on her plan for a few weeks
at a time, and, so far as my experience goes, it precisely comports with
hers. But I love the "good things" of this world too well to abstain
from their use, until some formidable disease demands their prohibition.

Yours, etc.,
L. W. S.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Dr. Preston has since deceased.

[2] Mr. Vincent is of Stonington, Ct.

CHAPTER III.

REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING LETTERS.

Correspondence.--The "prescribed course of Regimen."--How many
victims to it?--Not one.--Case of Dr. Harden considered.--Case
of Dr. Preston.--Views of Drs. Clark, Cheyne, and Lambe, on the
treatment of Scrofula.--No reports of Injury from the
prescribed System.--Case of Dr. Bannister.--Singular testimony
of Dr. Wright.--Vegetable food for Laborers.--Testimony, on the
whole, much more favorable to the Vegetable System than could
reasonably have been expected, in the circumstances.

"Reports not unfrequently reach us," says Dr. North, "of certain
individuals who have fallen victims to a prescribed course of regimen.
These persons are said, by gentlemen who are entitled to the fullest
confidence, to have pertinaciously followed the course, till they
reached a point of reduction from which there was no recovery." "If
these are facts," he adds, "they ought to be known and published."

It was in this view, that Dr. North, himself a medical practitioner of
high respectability, sent forth to every corner of the land, through
standard and orthodox medical journals, to regular and experienced
physicians--his "medical brethren"--his list of inquiries. These
inquiries, designed to elicit truth, were couched in just such language
as was calculated to give free scope and an acceptable channel for the
communication of every fact which seemed to be opposed to the VEGETABLE
SYSTEM; for this, we believe, was distinctly understood, by every
medical man, to be the "prescribed course of regimen" alluded to.

The results of Dr. North's inquiries, and of an opportunity so favorable
for "putting down," by the exhibition of sober facts, the vegetable
system, are fully presented in the foregoing chapter. Let it not be said
by any, that the attempt was a partial or unfair one. Let it be
remembered that every effort was made to obtain _truth in facts_,
without partiality, favor, or affection. Let it be