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his death); Patrick O'Neill, at one hundred and thirteen married a seventh wife, walked without a cane, was never ill in his life; Baron Cuvier; Lamartine, educated a vegetarian of the strictest sort, and who possessed as fine a physical frame as could be found in France; Samuel Chinn of Marblehead Mass., who subsisted four years on fruit and unground wheat, uncooked—and who, being appointed a delegate to a convention at Worcester, fifty-eight miles distant, filled his pocket with wheat walked there during one day, attended the convention, and the third day walked home again with comparative ease; "Father Sewall," of Maine, a man of giant size, who lived ninety years or more, and abstained from flesh and fish, etc., between thirty and forty years; Miles Grant, the noted Adventist, who could preach fifteen sermons a week, and perform a vast amount of other labor; Bronson Alcott, the "sage of Concord;" Thoreau, the sweet writer of Nature; Geofrey, Percy and Vauguelin, distinguished French chemists; Dr. J. Berdell, distinguished dentist of New York; Drs. Sylvester Graham, Alcott, Shew, Priessnitz, Abernethy, Smethurst, Schrodt, Schlemmer, Claude Bernard, Trail, Rush, Guy of King's College London, Jarvis, Jennings, Beaumont, Van Coothe, Condie, Clark, Buchan, Salgues, Cullen, Gregory, James, Hufeland, Taylor, Cranstoun, Foote, Oswald, Ditson, Kellogg, Robertson, Heald, Gorhan, Peebles, Stillman, and a host of other physicians of the present day, together with their numerous pupils and followers; Rev.
Henry S. Clubb, President Vegetarian Society of America and editor of Food, Home and Garden, Vice President Universal Peace Union and editor of the Peacemaker, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.; Profs. O. S. and L. N. Fowler, Prof. S. R. Wells, Prof. Nelson Sizer, Prof. Mussey, etc., etc.
