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Episode 3 - Less Disease · Vegetarianism and Occultism

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  Section three, less disease. Second, because many diseases come from this lowesome
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  habit of devouring dead bodies. Here again, I could easily give you a
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  long list of quotations, but as before, I will be satisfied with a
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  few. Doctor Hosiah Oldfield, m r C. S l R c P.
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  Writes flesh is an unnatural food and therefore tends to create functional disturbances as
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  it is taken in modern civilizations. It is infected with such terrible diseases readily
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  communicable to man as cancer, consumption, fever, intestinal worms, et cetera.
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  To an enormous extent. There is little need to wonder that flesh eating
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  is one of the most serious causes of the diseases that carry off ninety nine
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  out of every hundred people that are born. Sir Edward Saunders tells us any
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  attempt to teach mankind that beef and beer are not necessary for health and efficiency
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  must be good and must tend to thrift in happiness. And as this goes
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  on, I believe we shall hear less of gout Bright's disease and trouble with
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  the liver and the kidneys in the former, and less of brutality and wife
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  beating and murder in the latter. I believe that the tendency is towards vegetarian
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  diet, that it will be recognized as fit and proper, and that the
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  time is not far distant when the idea of animal food will be found revolting
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  to civilized man. Sir Robert Christison, m d. Asserts positively that the
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  flesh and secretions of animals affected with carbuncular diseases analogists to anthrax, are so
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  poisonous that those who eat the product of them are apt to suffer severely,
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  the disease taking the form either of inflammation of the digestive canal or of an
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  eruption of one or more carbuncles. Doctor A. Kingsford of the University of
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  Paris says animal meat may directly endanger many painful and lonesome diseases. Scrapula itself,
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  that feak and source of suffering in death not improbably owes its origin to
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  flesh eating habits. It is a curious fact that the word scrapula is derived
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  from scrapha a sow. To say that one has scrapula is to say that
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  he has swines evil in his fifth Report to the Privy Council in England,
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  we find Professor Gamgee stating that one fifth of the total amount of meat consumed
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  is derived from animals killed in a state of malignant disease, while Professor A.
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  Winter blythe f r c S writes, economically speaking, flesh is not
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  necessary, and meat seriously diseased may be so prepared as to look like fairly
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  good meat. Many an animal with advanced diseases of the lung yet shows to
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  the naked eye no appearance in the flesh which differs from the normal. Doctor
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  M. K. Coombs, in the article above quoted, remarks, we
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  have many substitutes for meat which are free from the deleterious effects of that food
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  upon the animal economy, namely in the production of rheumatism, gout, and
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  all other kindred diseases, to say nothing of cerebral congestion, which frequently terminates
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  in apoplexy and venal diseases of one kind and another migraine and many other such
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  forms of headache resulting from the excessive use of meat, and often produced when
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  meat is not eaten to excess. Doctor J. H. Kellogg remarks it
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  is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakening to the
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  fact that the flesh of animals as food is not pure nutriment, but is
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  mixed with poisonous substances excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal
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  life. The vegetable stores up energy. It is from the vegetable world,
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  the coal and the wood, that the energy is derived, which runs our
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  steam engines, pulls our trains, drives our steamships, and does the work
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  of civilization. It is from the vegetable world that all animals, directly or
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  indirectly derive the energy, which is manifested by animal life through muscular and mental
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  work. The vegetable builds up, the animal tears down. The vegetable stores
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  up energy. The animal expends energy. Various waste and poisonous products result from
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  the manifestation of energy, whether by the locomotive or the animal. The working
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  tissues of the animal are enabled to continue their activity only by the fact that
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  they are continually washed clean by the blood, a never ceasing stream flowing through
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  and about them, carrying away the poisonous products resulting from their work as rapidly
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  as they are formed. The venus blood owes its character to these poisons,
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  which are removed by the kidneys, lungs, skin, and bowels. The
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  flesh of a dead animal contains a great quantity of these poisons, the elimination
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  of which ceases at the instant of death, although their formation continues for some
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  time after death. An eminent and French surgeon recently remarked that beef tea is
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  a veritable source of poisons. Intelligent physicians everywhere are coming to recognize these facts
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  and to make a practical application of them. Here again, you see,
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  we have no lack of evidence, and many of the quotations with regard to
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  the introduction of poisons into the system through flesh food are not from the vegetarian
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  doctors, but from those who still hold it right to eat sparingly of corpses,
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  but yet have studied to some extent the science of the matter. It
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  should be remembered that dead flesh can never be in a condition of perfect health,
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  because decay commences at the moment when the creature is killed. All sorts
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  of products are being formed in this process of retrograde change. All of these
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  are useless, and many of them are positively dangerous and poisonous. In the
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  ancient scripture of the Hindoos, we find a very remarkable passage which refers to
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  the fact that even in India, some of the lower casts at that early
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  period commenced to feed on flesh. The statement made is that in ancient times
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  only three diseases existed, one of which was old age, but that now
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  since people had commenced to eat flesh, seventy eight new diseases had arisen.
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  This shows us that the idea that disease might come from the devouring of corpses
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  has been recognized for thousands of years. End of Section three