John Milner Fothergill Quotes

John Milner Fothergill, M.D. , was a British physician and medical writer.

✵ 11. April 1841 – 28. June 1888
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John Milner Fothergill Quotes

“All the bloodshed caused by the warlike disposition of Napoleon is as nothing compared to the myriads of persons who have sunk into their graves through a misplaced confidence in the value of beef tea.”

Quoted in Shall We Slay to Eat? https://books.google.it/books?id=WNQvAQAAMAAJ by John Harvey Kellogg, Good Health Publishing Company, 1899, p. 124.

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