Note 275 — Chapter XXXVII · On the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Vegetarian Diet.
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As an illustration we may mention the amusing story of the rich Dutchman, who, while en route to an Austrian watering place for the treatment of his obesity, was arrested in Germany for some imprudent utterances termed “lèse majesté,” and after having been kept in prison for four months on a largely vegetarian diet came home as a slender man cured of his corpulency.