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(London, 1997), p. 128.
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treatise of antiquity:
quoted in Flandrin and Montanari,
Histoire de l’alimentation,
p. 261.
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from sewer water:
Galen,
De bonis malisque sucis,
A. M. Ieraci Bio, ed. (Naples, 1987), pp. 6, 9.
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for the elderly:
Galen,
Scripta minora,
eds. J. Marquardt, I. E. P. von Müller and G. Helmreich, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1884-93) (“De sanitate tuenda,” c. 5).
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“rotted to the roots”:
S. de Champlain,
Voyages,
W. L. Grant, ed. (1907), pp. 33-42.
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suited to it:
F. López-Ríos Fernández,
Medicina naval española en la época de los descubrimientos
(Barcelona, 1993), pp. 85-163. The quotations from Lind
(A Treatise of the Scurvy,
1753, facsimile ed. [Edinburgh, 1953]) in the following two paragraphs are quoted from this work.
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“plenty of it”:
Ibid., pp. 109-11.
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“lunacy, convulsions”:
G. Williams,
The Prize of All the Oceans
(London, 2000), pp. 45-46.
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“days fit for duty”:
J. Lind,
A Treatise of the Scurvy
(Edinburgh, 1953), p. 148; López-Ríos Fernández,
Medicina naval española,
pp. 106-7.
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recommendation was deleted:
M. E. Hoare, ed.,
The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster,
4 vols. (London, 1981-82), iii, 454.
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come to hand:
P. LeRoy,
A Narrative of the Singular Adventures of Four Russian Sailors Who Were Cast Away on the Desert Island of East Spitzbergen
(London, 1774), pp. 69-72.
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“drinking water”:
J. Dunmore, ed.,
The Journal of Jean-François de Galaup de la Pérouse,
2 vols. (London, 1994), ii, 317, 431-32.
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up and about:
M. Palau, ed.,
Malaspina ’94
(Madrid, 1994), p. 74.
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reached Valparaiso:
Vancouver,
Voyage,
pp. 1471-72.
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moral health, too?:
S. Nissenbaum,
Sex, Diet and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform
(Westport, 1980).
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“did not continue”:
C. F. Beckingham et al., eds.,
The Itinerario of Jerónimo Lobo
(London, 1984), pp. 262-63.
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“feed luxuriously”:
Quoted in C. Spencer,
The Heretics’ Feast: A History of Vegetarianism
(London, 1993), p. 100.
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“invigorating diet”:
Wealth of Nations
(1784), iii, 341. See also K. Thomas,
Man and the Natural World
(London, 1983).
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“human blood”:
Henry Brougham, quoted in T. Morton,
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste
(Cambridge, 1994), p. 26.
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competition between species:
G. Nicholson,
On the Primeval Diet of Man
(1801), ed. R. Preece (Lewiston, 1999), p. 8.
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“matter for corruption”:
Ibid., p. 33.
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“rice husks will be”:
C. B. Heiser,
Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food
(Cambridge, 1990), p. 85.
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sacred texts:
J. Ritson,
An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food as a Moral Duty
(1802).
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“other motives”:
P. B. Shelley,
A Vindication of Natural Diet
(London, 1813); ed. F. E. Worland (London, 1922).
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tree of Eden:
Morton,
Shelley and the Revolution,
p. 136.
    43
“sufficient nourishment”:
Ibid., p. 29; M. Shelley,
Frankenstein
(Chicago, 1982), p. 142.
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virgin soil:
Nissenbaum,
Sex, Diet and Debility,
p. 6.
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“this is evil”:
Ibid., p. 127.
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he called Granula:
Ibid., pp. 151-52.
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with roughage:
Levenstein,
Revolution at the Table,
p. 93.
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“unscientific feeding”:
E. S. Weigley,
Sarah Tyson Rorer: The Nation’s Instructress in Dietetics and Cookery
(Philadelphia, 1977), p. 37.
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“of the stomach”:
Ibid., pp. 125, 138.
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“city or country”:
Ibid., p. 61.
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recycled leftovers:
Ibid., pp. 2, 63, 139.
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potato around it:
Ibid., p. 48.
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laboratory science:
Levenstein,
Revolution at the Table,
p. 87.
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“life and work”:
Ibid., p. 88.
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“juices of the body”:
A. W. Hofmann,
The Life-work of Liebig
(London, 1876), p. 27.
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“concentrated form”:
Ibid., p. 31. Henry Chavasse thought children should be protected from vegetables.
Advice to Mothers on the