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The Relation of Alimentation and Disease — James H. Salisbury, M.D., 1888.

The book this site is reading chapter by chapter. A physician who fed hired men nothing but beans, raised two thousand hogs, and put dying patients on broiled beef and hot water, thirty years before anyone had a word for it. Free at the Internet Archive.

Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public — William Banting, 1863.

A London undertaker gives up bread, sugar, beer, and potatoes, loses the weight, and writes it down in twenty pages. For fifty years afterward “banting” was the English word for dieting. Free at Project Gutenberg.

Walden — Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

Quiet desperation, the cost of a thing measured in life, and the case for owning less, written by a man in a cabin he built himself. Free at Project Gutenberg.

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Salisbury’s Takes — The 1888 Doctor Who Prescribed a Carnivore Diet, What He Got Right, and How to Do It Now.

The man behind Salisbury steak spent thirty years proving that most chronic disease begins at the table and can be reversed there. His book was forgotten for a century. This one is what he got right, his original protocol as he prescribed it, and the carnivore version for now, with the 1888 removed. Forty-six pages. Read it in an evening; use it for years.