John Frank Newton
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    John Frank Newton

    John Frank Newton(1767–1837)

    British health-reform writer and early advocate of vegetarianism and distilled-water drinking, influenced by (and writing to popularize) the regimen of physician William Lambe.

    Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Reading) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)

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    Return to Nature

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    The return to nature; or, A defence of the vegetable regimen: with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family

    The Dial's edition: London, 1811

    A defense of the vegetable regimen with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family.

    Full textSurvives at Houghton Library

    Read by Alcott (see Alcott's Library)