SUMMARY (Ridvan Askin, edited Deborah Madsen):

In this short article, Nichols promotes veganism for health reasons, as a key component of the water-cure (hydrotherapy). Her experiences at the “Water-Cure House” in Lebanon, NY, she maintains, show that “[t]hose patients there who restricted themselves entirely to fruits, bread, and vegetables, bore the treatment well and recovered most rapidly.” She concludes that “Plain, simple eaters will have much less of crisis, so called, than those who eat animal food and oils during the cure. All diseased persons have enough morbid matter to throw off, without adding to it by improper diet during the process of cure” (124).