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With the meat, the child often absorbs the eggs of worms, tubercular bacilli, an

d other parasites and disease germs. Certain forms of epilepsy, St. Vitus' dance
and hysterical conditions are due to uric acid poisoning and to other pathogeni
c materials and ptomains contained in flesh foods. Such patients, in times of cr
ises, frequently emit pronounced odors of raw meat or uric acid. Strictly vegeta
rian diet, combined with other eliminative natural methods of treatment, cures t
he majority of these cases.
Most of these poisonous acids, alkaloids and ptomains contained in the flesh
of dead animals are powerful stimulants. I have frequently noticed that people w
ho have abstained from meat for a long time, when they first partake of it again
experience sensations and exhibit symptoms resembling those of alcoholic intoxi
cation.
We have learned that these stimulating extractives of flesh foods chemically
closely resemble caffeine, thein and nicotine. The use of one or more of these s
timulants invariably creates a craving for the others. This explains why a heavy
meat eater is usually a confirmed coffee drinker or inveterate smoker, and vice
versa; and why we find it almost impossible to wean people from one of these st
imulants as long as they persist in taking the others.

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