Title
Vegetarian in print
Subject
First known appearance of 'vegetarian'
Description
In 1841, students at the experimental school Alcott House (later renamed Concordia, though the building would retain Alcott’s namesake) began to print pamphlets called The Healthian, which would eventually be consolidated into an annual volume. The Healthian is the first known publication to print the word “vegetarian” in April 1842.
Vegetarian, the word that would become synonymous with those compassionate individuals who abstain from eating the flesh of animals, first appeared in a section called Flesh Diet in Volume 1, No. 5 of The Healthian, in April 1842. If you click on the picture, you peruse the editor's answer to "Barbara's Letter" in the Flesh Diet piece.
Vegetarian, the word that would become synonymous with those compassionate individuals who abstain from eating the flesh of animals, first appeared in a section called Flesh Diet in Volume 1, No. 5 of The Healthian, in April 1842. If you click on the picture, you peruse the editor's answer to "Barbara's Letter" in the Flesh Diet piece.
Creator
Harvard University
Source
Publisher
London : J. Cleave, 1842-1843.
Date
1842
Format
1 v. ; 23 cm.