History List
Mr. Roberts uses Dancel's Carnivore Diet: "I weighed two hundred and six pounds, and now weigh only one hundred and ninety-two. I am delighted with the success which has attended your system of treatment, and am happy to be able to inform you of it. Accept my sincere thanks."
Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence : the various causes and the rational means of cure
April 12, 1851
Madame d'Aries of Spain used the carnivore diet for obesity. "Following your directions, I have lost weight. Since my last two confinements the abdomen had remained unduly large: it is now much smaller. I feel lighter."
Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence : the various causes and the rational means of cure
May 12, 1851
Mr. G. Chauvin owing to his increasing corpulency adopted my mode of treatment, and in one of his letters, dated November, 1851, he says: "I have followed your directions, which have effected the result I was led to expect. My family have expressed their astonishment at the sudden and extraordinary diminution of size. But it has been effected without the slightest bad symptom."
Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence: the various causes and the rational means of cure
November 1, 1851
Dr Dancel explains his third case of obesity cured through meat diet. She wrote after seventeen days trial of the system:—"My corpulence is perceptibly diminished, and I am no longer afflicted with drowsiness after meals. I follow rigidly the instructions you have given me, and each day feel more deeply indebted to you."
Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence : the various causes and the rational means of cure
March 3, 1850
"In the month of August, 1849, M. Guénaud, a master baker, still residing in the Rue St. Martin, Paris, presented the following appearance:—Age, twenty-eight years; height, four feet eleven inches. His obesity was such that he was scarcely able to walk, and whenever he attempted to do so, suffered from difficulty of breathing." Cured after 3 months of the following diet. "A beefsteak or a couple of cutlets, with a very small allowance of vegetables, together with half a cup of coffee, constituted his breakfast. Dinner consisted of meat and a very small quantity of vegetables."
Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence : the various causes and the rational means of cure
August 20, 1849
Dr Dancel says "These chemical principles are founded upon facts—upon observation. As I have said, carnivorous animals are never fat, because they feed upon a substance rich in nitrogen—flesh; which flesh makes flesh, and very little fat. They have no belly, because flesh, taken in small quantity, suffices for one day, or twenty-four hours."
Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence : the various causes and the rational means of cure
January 11, 1844
Dr Dancel presented a paper in 1851 to the Academy of Sciences in Paris and said "For several years past I have given much consideration to the reduction of corpulency in cases where it interfered with the comforts of life, and I can reckon by thousands those who have followed my instructions. I have established it as a fact, without a single exception, that it is always possible to diminish obesity, by living chiefly upon meat, and partaking only of a small quantity of other kinds of food."
Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence : the various causes and the rational means of cure
December 15, 1851
French physician Jean-Francois Dancel presented his cure for obesity, a nearly exclusive meat diet, to the French Academy of Sciences in 1844 and later wrote a book on it, which was was translated to English in 1864 by M Barrett in Toronto. Dancel encouraged an exclusively meat diet to cure obesity, but did not add sources of fat like dairy and eggs or high fat meats. "That kind of meat known as game is very nutritious, occupies but small space, and consequently only moderately distends the alimentary canal."
Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure
January 1, 1844
Dr Bardsley's sixth patient, George Barratt also benefitted from an animal diet. "The efficacy of animal diet is strongly exemplified by the reduction of the quantity of urine from twenty pints to nine pints, in twenty four hours; and by the nearer approach to equality between this fluid and the liquids drank; but especially by the disappearance of great part of the saccharine properties of the urine; all which events speedily followed the use of this regimen."
Medical reports of cases and experiments, with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles
December 23, 1805
Dr Bardsley is extremely happy with his fifth patient, Thomas Whitehead, aged 50: "He was ordered to live on cold beef and mutton, and occasionally fat pork. The efficacy of animal food, in subduing the diabetic symptoms in this case, is placed beyond all controversy. Its effects were rapid, manifest, and decisive."
Medical reports of cases and experiments, with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles
April 22, 1805
Dr Bardsley discusses the 4th case of diabetes, likely to be Type 1 considering the quick death of the patient within just a few months. The animal diet helped with symptoms, but bread and vegetable matter increased the urine output.
Medical reports of cases and experiments, with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles
April 12, 1802
Dr Bardsley explains his third case of diabetes in which the animal-diet helped the patient named Thomas Kay. "His diet was again ordered to be restricted to animal food"
Medical reports of cases and experiments, with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles
September 29, 1800
Dr Bardsley describes his second case of diabetes and the usage of the animal diet to effect a cure leading to the discharge of the patient, named Mary Middleton.
Medical reports of cases and experiments, with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles
March 15, 1800
Dr Bardsley learns of Dr Rollo's animal diet for diabetes and applies it to his first case, a 40-year old weaver named Benjamin Piggin. "I have no reason to suspect the patient of either error or falsehood in the description of his symptoms, nor of irregularity in his attention to the sole use of animal diet. It is to this regimen I would attribute the speedy recovery of the patient"
Medical reports of cases and experiments, with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles
August 26, 1799
Dr Samuel Argent Bardsley begins his case series on treating diabetes using Dr Rollo's "rigid use of animal diet"
Medical reports of cases and experiments, with observations, chiefly derived from hospital practice: to which are added, an enquiry into the origin of canine madness; and thoughts on a plan for its extirpation from the British isles
April 2, 1807
Dr Purdy has caustic words for medicine when it comes to treating diabetes. "It remains, to speak of the medicinal treatment of glycosuria, and I may as well state frankly at the beginning that I have little faith in the curative power of medication over the disease, while on the contrary I am satisfied that the use of drugs in these cases is often productive of harm."
Treatment of glycosuria
March 30, 1889
Dr Purdy explains his dietary treatment for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes which is generally a ketogenic or carnivore diet. "Step by step the more objectionable foods should be cut off until sugar ceases to appear in the urine, or until we reach almost —indeed in some cases an absolute—animal diet."
Treatment of glycosuria
March 30, 1889
Reed and Carnrick explain dietary treatments for tuberculosis "Tuberculosis in the human subject is most frequently found in starch and sugar-fed subjects. The only line of treatment that has yielded any satisfactory results has been the sending of such cases to the wild mountain regions where the diet of necessity is largely of the animal class, such as game and fish. "
An abstract of the symptoms, with the latest dietetic and medicinal treatment of various diseased conditions : the food products, digestion and assimilation : the new and valuable preparations manufactured by Reed and Carnrick
October 1, 1891
Reed and Carnrick explain how babies process milk and oxidize the fats, carbohydrates, and protein.
An abstract of the symptoms, with the latest dietetic and medicinal treatment of various diseased conditions : the food products, digestion and assimilation : the new and valuable preparations manufactured by Reed and Carnrick
January 4, 1891
Reed and Carnrick explain why the exclusive meat diet is superior to a vegetarian diet when chemistry and anatomy are taken into account.
An abstract of the symptoms, with the latest dietetic and medicinal treatment of various diseased conditions : the food products, digestion and assimilation : the new and valuable preparations manufactured by Reed and Carnrick
January 3, 1891
Incredible book from 1891 explains how "It is found that with an exclusive meat diet composed of the ordinary average meat almost the exact quantities of both the CHNOS and CHO compounds can be obtained from bare subsistence up to that for forced work." and that other diets will require too much carbohydrates in order to get enough protein.
An abstract of the symptoms, with the latest dietetic and medicinal treatment of various diseased conditions : the food products, digestion and assimilation : the new and valuable preparations manufactured by Reed and Carnrick
January 2, 1891
Some months ago two French scientists, Richet and Hericourt, announced most favorable results in the treatment of tuberculosis with raw meat or its juice. They began two years ago to publish their observations, and during the last year both have written glowing accounts of the efficiency of this treatment.
Brown: Zomotherapy in Tuberculosis
June 2, 1903
The origins of the idea that there wasn’t enough vitamin C in meat to prevent scurvy came from the failure of meat to prevent scurvy in guinea pigs: the concentration of vitamin C in the meats tested wasn’t high enough for the guinea pigs who could only eat small quantities of meat since they are herbivores.
The value of meat as an antiscorbutic
December 2, 1941
"In a study from the 1930s-early 1940s, they experimented with doses of vitamin C to determine minimum requirement to avoid scurvy. The researchers supplemented 10mg/day. In their trials, they found that that the 10mg amount was sufficient not only to prevent scurvy but also to reverse scurvy. A few of the participants were given reduced doses, after 160 days with only 10 mg a day, three volunteers were left on less, which averaged 3.2, 3.2, and 4.5 mg vitamin C daily, and even that was enough to prevent scurvy."
Medical experiments carried out in Sheffield on conscientious objectors to military service during the 1939-45 war
July 1, 1939
Eczema is cured with an all meat diet. "He now avoided bread completely, as well as flour foods, and subsisted almost exclusively on meat, meat broths, eggs and milk, allowing only some green vegetables and cooked fruit. After only 4 days on this diet, the appearance of the rash had changed considerably, the red areas of skin had become more massive, the watery secretion had become almost zero, as well as the formation of scales and crusts. After 6 weeks the disease was almost completely gone."
Die Heilung der Psoriasis - by Dr Gustav Passavant
January 10, 1866
In a few cases of disease such as flatulent dyspepsia, chronic gastritis, diabetes, obesity and chronic dysentery, an almost exclusive meat diet, with only a little dry bread, has been found beneficial. Fat and lean meat of animals taken together contains all the fourteen elements of which the human body is composed. A man could, therefore, live on an exclusive meat diet.
The Agricultural Student -- The Food Value of Meats
February 1, 1901
In 1867 Gustav Passavant of Frankfort, Germany, in an open letter to Prof. F. V. Hebra , reported his own case of psoriasis of twenty-five years standing. After trying for many years all known external and internal treatment, with but temporary benefit, he states that he was soon free of psoriasis and from an accompanying catarrh, after entering on an almost absolute meat diet, including soups, pork, fats, cod liver oil, milk, and bacon, and practically no vegetables or bread.
The value of an absolutely vegetarian diet in psoriasis
January 1, 1867
A dietitian describes how meat is healthy in an omnivorous diet to prevent anemia and protein malnutrition and also explains how an exclusive meat diet is possible by citing Stefansson's study. "The chief importance of this experiment was not to encourage people to live on an exclusive meat diet, since this would be economically expensive and socially inconvenient. It did serve, however, to show that meat is probably not the cause of all the evil effects that have been ascribed to it."
Omnivorous Mankind by Mary Pascoe Huddleson
November 1, 1937
The editors of a livestock industry paper mock the claims of a Dr Keller who complained about the exclusive-meat diet experiment done a year beforehand and call him a "dietary zealot."
The Producer - published Monthly in the interest of the live stock industry of the US by the American National Live Stock Association Publishing Company
November 2, 1930
The famine foods of the Aborigines are described in this short anecdote. Day after day small fires were lighted to cook snakes and rabbits and bandicoots, lizards and iguanas, and every living thing that provided a mouthful. They killed many dingoes, and even their pet puppies, but the little boy clung lovingly to the last one. When meat supplies faded, they lived upon edible grubs and honey, ants, and beetles, and wong-unu (a grass), the seeds of which Nabbari masticated before she cooked them when there was no water.
The Passing of the Aborigines
April 15, 1911
The Kaalurwonga, cast of the Badu, were a fierce arrogant tribe who pursued fat men, women and girls, and cooked the dead by making a deep hole in the sand, trussing the body and there roasting it, and tossing it about until it cooled sufficient for them to divide it.
The Passing of the Aborigines
January 2, 1912
A paper discussing the types of cannibalism in Australia is full of interesting stories, but it's interesting that "Human meat had always been their favourite food" and this is in a continent where all other large animals high in fat have gone extinct.
Some Notes on Cannibalism Among Queensland Aborigines, 1824-1900 by E. G. Heap, B.A.
January 1, 1967
Their amazement at seeing one of the seamen shoot a seal was quite unbounded. They heard for the first time the report of a musket, and turning round in the direction in which the animal was killed, and floating on the water, one of them was desired to go in his canoe and fetch it. Before landing it he turned it round and round, till he observed where the ball had penetrated, and, putting his finger into the hole, set up a most extraordinary shout of astonishment, dancing and capering in the most absurd manner.
Journal of a Voyage to Spitzbergen and the East Coast of Greenland, in his Majesty's Ship Griper. By
Douglas CHARLES CLAVERING, Esq. F.R.S., Commander. Communicated by JAMES SMITH, Esq. of
Jordanhill, F. R. S. E. With a Chart of the Discoveries of Captains CLAVERING and SCORESBY,
August 23, 1823
To describe in detail the vegetable food of the Australian aborigines would demand far more space than can be here allotted to the subject. Probably they employ as food at least three hundred species of vegetables, using the roots or tubers, the pith, the leaves, the fruits, kernels or husks, the seeds, and the gum, according to the species. Often more than one product is in use from a single species. When other food is scarce nardoo is the stand-by of the natives in the centre of Australia, but its nutritive properties are small.
The Natives of Australia
January 3, 1906
It might be thought that the natural difficulties of securing a good meal were sufficient without any addition of artificial ones ; but this is not the view of the Australian native. Complicated rules, which varied with the tribe, limited the species and parts of the individual animals which were lawful food for boys, young men, girls, married women, and so on.
The Natives of Australia
January 2, 1906
