THANKSGIVING NUMBER Volume XVIII November, 1903 No. 11 Some Objections to Veg- etarianism Considered Vegetarian Athletic Victories Vegetarianism and Vigor Dietetic Observations Physical Culture in the Daily Occupation A Transformed Life Fifty Cents per Year Five Cents per Copy G. H. HEALD, M. D., Editor, Sanitarium, Cal. Entered February 2, 1902, as Second-class Matter; Post-Office at Oakland, Cal.; Act of Congress, March ?,1R79 PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Oakland, Cal. r ALCOHOLISM The January Number of the PACIFIC HEALTH JOURNAL will be devoted to the liquor question, more especially the medicinal use of alcoholic preparations. It will be a very strong number. Among the articles which will appear are the following:— Is Alcohol a Food? By T. D. CROTHERS, M. D., superintendent Walnut Lodge Hospital, Hartford, Conn. (an institution established for the care of alcoholic, opium, and other drug inebriates), and a well-known writer on the medicinal use of alcohol. Is Alcoholic Medication Necessary? By N. S. DAVIS, A. M., M. D., LL. D., of Chicago, for many years president of the American Medical Temperance Association, and a prolific writer on the subject of al- cohol. Dr. Davis has been engaged in the practice of medicine successfully for more than 5o years in Chicago, using no alcohol whatever in his practice. Physiological Effects of Alcohol. 11—y C. E. STEWART, M. D., professor of physiology American Medical Missionary College of Chicago, and assistant editor of "Modern Medicine." Mental, Moral, and Social Aspects of Alcoholism. By W. S. SADLER, whose well-known work in the slums of Chicago has em- inently fitted him to prepare this paper. Masked Alcoholism. By T. J. EVANS, M. D., Superintendent St. Helena Sanitarium. Some of the disguises under which alcohol is used. Some Untoward Results of Alcoholic Prescriptions. By A. J. SANDERSON, M. D., well-known to the readers of the HEALTH JOURNAL. This number will find ready sale among temperance people Pacific Health Journal Capital and Labor The most Perplexing Problem of the 20th Century Can the Problem be Jolted? What Will be the Final Outcome? Some of the Subjects to be Considered i The Fundamental Differences between 3 Christian Union versus Trade Union. Capital and Labor. What is necessary 4 The Great Strife for Power. in order to a permanent settlement and 5 The Oppression of Wealth. peace? Capital's Side.—Some Represent- 6 Dangers and Warnings. ative of Capital. Labor's Side.—Some 7 How Came this Great Conflict? Representative of Labor. 8 Utterances from Eminent Men. 2 Individualism.—The Human Unit. 9 Statistical and Biographical Data. A Live Question of Interest to all .... 4..7- .. - The relation of Capital and Labor * is acknowledged to be one of the problems of the loth , . . most perplexing - .. t century. Never before in the history , 1. 't.' k A" of our world was there so much ag- -,. r ...4-.. , 4. ..4.. :4- .• 4 4.•/.7,,40, 7.; itation over the subject as now. .,,t, ,; . 1 Never before were the laboring classes '. ' I " • 4'......1,s 4*, 7'j •'` 41 '..; •e, so well and so thoroughly organized a l ',:r '' ' fb X ...f. 74 111:- j'i as now. Never before were there 1 , e„- N, such gigantic combinations of capital -7 -44.-0f i . • "i 101 ' V and moneyed interests as now. Never .k before was there so much discontent t'11 '..? ' . - os ' .., t) ' 4 among the laboring classes as now. ,, Never before was there such a large gig1/4:. 41. • and general demonstration by labor- V-4 - * 0 ing men all over this country as on Sept. 7, 1903. What Do These Things Mean? What Will be the Final Outcome? The whole question will be treated in a fair and impartial manner in this special issue of the SIGNS of the TIMES 24 Pages Including Cover 0 Beautifully Illustrated READY ABOUT NOVEMBER. 15, 1903 25 to 20 Copiesor Price Five Cents . 0 more to one adrress le Single copies will be mailed direct from this office to lists of names furnished ns, at the following rates:— I to 20 copies 5 cents 25 to 99 copies 4 cents too or more copies . ........ 3 cents Address, SIGNS of the GIMES, Oakland, Cal. VoL. XVIII. Oakland, California, November, 1903. No. II Some Objections to Vegetarianism Answered By A. M. Winnegar-Simpson, M. D. " Vegetarianism does not give strength Scotch highlander,—physical strength to the body as does meat, and causes a and the energy necessary to cope with sensation of weakness." nature in a more or less unhospitable THE use of flesh foods has become clime. Lentils furnish the immense so common among civilized nations muscular energy (they had no steam that the belief is quite current that in those days) which erected Egypt's meat eating is essential to life and vast pyramids. health. Even people of intelligence It does not seem to be generally are met who are surprised to learn known that many of the athletic that one may maintain superb health victories of the world, ancient and on a non-meat diet. It does not seem modern [See another article for par- to be generally known in this coun- ticulars.—ED.], have been won on a try that whole nations exist with vegetarian diet. scarcely a taste of meat, and that the Mr. G. H. Corsan, the champion number of vegetarians in the world swimmer of Canada, says that fast exceeds the number of meat eaters; swimming tries the extreme limit of that the peasant classes in many coun- man's physical endurance. To the tries, who through choice or necessity question, " Is meat a good food to train subsist almost entirely on the prod- upon ?" he answers, "I say, most de- ucts of the earth, are, as a rule, pos- cidedly, No." His diet consists of sessed of a better physique and greater the natural product of the earth, fruit endurance than their "more fortunate" and nuts, in their natural condition. neighbors, who can afford the products Prof. Eustace Miles, of England, of the butcher shop and the cattle the tennis champion of the world, is ship. an enthusiastic vegetarian. Rye bread, olive-oil, and vegetable Miller, the champion six-day bicy- soups furnish to the people of South- clist, trained on a vegetarian diet. ern Russia what potatoes, buttermilk, These facts alone should convince and oatmeal furnish to the Irish peas- any one that meat is not necessary to antry and what oatmeal furnish, s to the a vigorous life. 256 PACIFIC HEAL 7'H fom?A7AT . " Vegetarianism may furnish muscle, sity of London, who was active, clear- but it does nol furnish brains." headed, and vigorous at the age of 8o, Prominent among the adherents of was a lifelong vegetarian. vegetarianism is Daniel, whose loyalty Surely these examples are sufficient to principle made him prime minister to refute the statement that "a vege- in two of the world-conquering mon- tarian diet does not furnish brains." archies. His wisdom, his executive "The world-conquering nations are ability, and his faithfulness were ac- meat eaters." "Beef and pork, no less knowledged, even by his enemies. than shot and powder, conquer in the Cyrus, who led the victorious armies bloody field of battle." of the conquering Persian monarchy, and afterward administered its affairs The world-conquering nations of as king during the zenith of its glory, early times,—Persia, Greece, and was a vegetarian. Rome,—carried on their conquests on " Remenyi, the famous Hungarian a simple vegetarian diet. Later on violinist, at the advanced age of more the use of meat and the indulgence of than sixty-three years, still had a luxurious habits brought on the de- countenance as generacy which fresh as a man of resulted in the I am a practising physician of thirty-five or over-throw of more than thirty years' standing. My forty, and free family has lived many years on an al- these nations. from wrinkles or most exclusively vegetable diet, and I "The men who other signs of old most thoroughly believe in it. It is bore the Roman age, a fact which far best /or humanity.—MRS. E. A. eagles over all the he attributed to BROWN, M. D. known world his vegetarian ha- were vegetarians. bits and total abstinence from all The men who made the name of Rome liquors and tobacco. a synonym of tyranny and profligacy " Edison, the greatest of modern were flesh-eaters." inventors, is practically a vegetarian. "The American soldier has never Wendell Phillips, the orator and re- entered into battle without the con- former, stated to the writer a few viction that he was fighting for liberty. years before his death that he had This constitutes his resemblance to been a vegetarian for forty years. the greatest soldiers of whom history Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, gives us knowledge. The three hun- and Alcott were vegetarians, as were dred of Leonidas, the heroes of also Greeley and Dana in their early Marathon, the Ironsides of Cromwell, years." the ragged Continentals of Washing- "The greatest philosopher of ancient ton, the men of Gettysburg and time, Pythagoras, was a most earnest Appomatox, the heroes of San Juan, apostle of vegetarian principles. and the burghers of South Africa are "Isaac Newton adhered strictly to military kinsmen, because of their a vegetable regime while performing love of liberty rather than because of the prodigious intellectual work which the quality of the provender that filled made his name immortal." their stomachs." Prof. William Law- Professor Newman, of the Univer- rence says, " Vegetable diet is as little SOME OBJECTIONS TO VEGETARIANISM ANSWERED.