"I met Dr. Gordon Latto, who had become so impressed by the efficacy of nature cure methods that he had switched over almost completely from his orthodox practice to natural healing. He said that he could stop the gallstone from forming, but that I must go on a strict vegetarian diet for a year, besides knocking off drink and tobacco (which he said was worse than drink). This was a tough regime; the gallstones could not survive it. I did, however, and at the end of the period I found that I was also cured of smoking, and that the vegetarian diet suited me so well that I have preferred it ever since."
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Francis Chichester, "Keeping Fit With Sir Francis Chichester", Esquire (June 1968); quoted in The Vegetarians by Rynn Berry (Autumn Press, 1979), p. 122.
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Gordon Latto (doctor)
Gordon Latto (25 June 1911 – 2 September 1998) was a Scottish doctor and nutritionist who was President of both the and the British Vegetarian Society.
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