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After twenty-one years as Professor of Anatomy and twenty years as Professor of Theory and Practice at Boston University School of Medicine, the writer speaks with authority on the subject of diet. That there is a marked personal bias cannot be denied. The material is a mixture of preachments and scientific data. There are no false claims, rather a series of implications. Failure to obey 'Nature's laws', chief among them 'transgressions of her dietetic laws', has led civilization to disease and misery (p. 266).
A long life and a happy one is assured by eating natural unspoiled grains, vegetables, fruits and nuts, having started life with nine months of breast milk. 'The use of sub-human milk (commonly called cow's milk) after the period of weaning may be fraught with more danger and even harm than benefit to the human race' (p. 51). All food refining processes are not only unnecessary but have 'injurious possibilities' (p. 135).
Needless to say there is no recognition given to emotional factors, even in the chapter on weaning. Man is given a soul, but that too is nourished on a meatless diet without granulated sugar or white flour in any form. In fairness it should be said that part of the text gives one pause to consider contemporary vitamin and mineral therapy and the part that low resistance to disease must play among the underprivileged.