Fruit and Bread: A Scientific Diet

• Fruit and Bread: A Scientific Diet (Fruta e Pão: Uma Dieta Científica). Gustav Schlickeysen. Dansville, N.Y. USA, Austin, Jackson & Co., 1877. 227 pp.

Information: This is the American translation into English, by M. L. Holbrook, from the German original by Gustav Schlickeysen. This book was recommended to Dr Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, as we can read in the following quotation:

““If you would be perfect, and able to know and to do all things, quit the heresy of Prometheus. Let fire warm and comfort you externally: it is heaven’s gift. But do not wrest it from its rightful purpose, as did that betrayer of your race, to fill the veins of humanity with its contagion, and to consume your interior being with its breath. All of you are men of clay, as was the image which Prometheus made. Ye are nourished with stolen fire, and it consumes you. Of all the evil uses of heaven’s good gifts, none is so evil as the internal use of fire. For your hot foods and drinks have consumed and dried up the magnetic power of your nerves, sealed your senses, and cut short your lives. Now, you neither see nor hear; for the fire in your organs consumes your senses. Ye are all blind and deaf, creatures of clay. We have sent you a book to read. (1) Practise its precepts, and your senses shall be opened.”

FOOTNOTE

(38:1) The book referred to was a volume entitled Fruit and Bread, which had been sent anonymously on the previous morning. (Ed.)” (pp. 37-38.) [Dreams and Dream-Stories. Anna Kingsford. Edited by Edward Maitland. Second Edition: George Redway, London, 1888. 281 pp.]

FRUIT AND BREAD

SCIENTIF DIET.

GUSTAV SCHLICKEYSEN.

Translated from the German,

M.L. HOLBROOK. M.D.,

Editor of the “Herald of Health,” author of

“Parturition Without Pain,” “Eating for Streght,”

“Liver Complaint,” etc.

With an Appendix.

Illustrated.

______________

Dansville, N.Y.:

Austin, Jackson & Co.,

Publishers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(with links to the complete Pdf file)

Part I.

The Anthropological Argument (7)

Part II.

The Physiological Argument (107)

Part III.

The Dietetic Argument (174)

German and English Works Quoted by the Author (209)

Appendix.

Dr. Jackson’s Letter (211)

Napier’s Cure for Intemperance (218)

Index (225)