Manuscript Releases, vol. 1 [Nos. 19-96]

Not to Prescribe Flesh, Tea, or Coffee

Physicians are not employed to prescribe a flesh diet for the patients; for it is this kind of diet that has made them sick. 1MR 286.1

Brother and Sister_____, seek the Lord. When you find Him, you will be meek and lowly of heart. Individually you will not subsist on the flesh of dead animals, neither will you put one morsel into the mouths of your children. You will not prescribe flesh, tea, or coffee, for your patients; but you will give talks in the parlor, showing the necessity of a simple diet. You will put away injurious things from your bill of fare. 1MR 286.2

To have the physicians of our institutions educating, by precept and example, those under their care to use a meat diet, after years of instruction from the Lord, disqualifies them to be superintendents of our health institutions.... 1MR 286.3