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Surely this system is nearly on the level, and only one 

 degree less harmful, than yielding to the request of the 

 poor drunkard, who wildly cries for more of the very 

 poison that is killing him. The immediate relief is actual 

 and visible ; the after-reaction in both cases being the 

 cause of fresh suffering. 



My object as a propagandist in the cause of non-meat- 

 eating is merely to give others my experience, with the 

 ordinary human desire that they may try a cure which has 

 been so beneficial to myself. When some years ago chronic 

 rheumatism was gaining upon me, I resorted to the usual 

 solaces of the well-to-do. I consulted doctors, I took 

 drugs, I left off wine which before the age of forty I had 

 rarely taken, and after forty only in small quantities. I 

 went to Aix-les-Bains. I got momentary relief from all 

 these cures, but on the whole the malady gained upon me, 

 and I looked forward to a cripply old age with great dread, 

 knowing full well that it would prevent my enjoying my 

 favourite occupation of gardening. My family physician 

 summed up the case with : ' Well, Mrs. Earle, at your 

 age this rheumatism which has settled in the hips is 

 extremely difficult of cure.' I repeated this to a veget- 

 arian friend, who lent me a book called * The Science of 

 Healing/ by L. Kuehne, a German non-medical man who 

 practises a strict vegetarian water-cure at Leipzig. In 

 consequence of reading this book I undertook to try and 

 cure myself. The results have been simply wonderful, 

 and I find the kind of food I eat, now that I am used to 

 it, entails no self-denial at all. I carried out the cure 

 strictly for many months almost as strictly as Kuehne 

 recommends, only breaking his rule by a small amount of 

 milk and butter, and I was greatly the better for it. I 

 took absolutely no animal food, and neither cheese nor 

 eggs. If ever I relapsed into ordinary diet, after a very 

 little time the old pains re-asserted themselves. My 



