Joseph Wallace (vegetarian)

Joseph Wallace
Portrait from Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898)
Bornc. 1821
Ireland
Died29 April 1910(1910-04-29) (aged 88–89)
London, England
Other namesLux et Lux
Known forActivism for vegetarianism, food reform and against vaccination
Spouse
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(m. 1878)​
Children7

Joseph Wallace (born c. 1821 – 29 April 1910) was an Irish-British activist for vegetarianism, food reform and against vaccination.

Biography

Wallace originally worked in the business of malting and distilling.[1] He was the creator of the "Wallace system", a method for the cure and eradication of disease.[1][2] The system included a vegetarian diet, free from fermented foods; its followers were known as "Wallaceites".[3] Wallace patented, prepared and sold several medicines, while also providing consultations.[4]

In 1878 he married Chandos Leigh Hunt,[5] his former patient and pupil.[6] In 1885, with his wife, he co-wrote Physianthropy: Or, the Home Cure and Eradication of Disease, writing under the pseudonym "Lex et Lux".[2] In October 1905, a meeting was held at Congregational Memorial Hall, London, for octogenarian vegetarians; those in attendance included Wallace (then aged 84), C. P. Newcombe, John E. B. Mayor and Isaac Pitman.[7]

Wallace and his wife were included in Charles W. Forward's Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England (1898).[1]

Wallace died in London on 29 April 1910.[8]

Legacy

Rollo Russell cited Wallace's dietary recommendations in the "Medical Testimony" section of his 1906 book Strength and Diet.[9] C. P. Newcombe's The Manifesto of Vegetarianism (1911) contains a memorial dedication to Wallace.[10]

Publications

  • Physianthropy: Or, the Home Cure and Eradication of Disease (as Lux et Lux; with C. Leigh Hunt Wallace; 1885)
  • Wallace's Complete Series of Twelve Specific Remedies for the Absolute Eradication of All Diseases, etc. (1885)
  • Fermentation: The Primary Cause of Disease in Man and Animals[11]
  • Cholera: Its Prevention and Home Cure[11]
  • The Necessity of Smallpox as an Eradicator of Organic Disease[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c Forward, Charles Walter (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London, Manchester: The Ideal Publishing Union, The Vegetarian Society. pp. 132–134.
  2. ^ a b Korshelt, Oskar (1890). The Wallace System of Cure (PDF). Glasgow, London: H. Nisbet & Co. p. 5.
  3. ^ "Vegetarianism Spreading among the Upper Ten in London". The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health. 119 (1). January 1906.
  4. ^ Davis, Sally (16 October 2019). "Isabel De Steiger's Art Works Alphabetical by Title". Roger Wright & Sally Davis. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  5. ^ Owen, Alex (2004). The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 134. ISBN 0-226-64205-4. OCLC 53434582.
  6. ^ Elsley, Susan Jennifer (April 2012). Images of the witch in nineteenth-century culture (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Liverpool.
  7. ^ "Diet and Longevity" (PDF). Herald of the Golden Age. 10 (4): 75. October 1905.
  8. ^ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  9. ^ Russell, Francis Albert Rollo (1906). Strength and Diet: A Practical Treatise with Special Regard to the Life of Nations. London: Longmans, Green. pp. 390.
  10. ^ "The manifesto of vegetarianism / by C.P. Newcombe". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  11. ^ a b c Florence, Daniel (1917). The Healthy Life Cook Book. London: C. W. Daniel. p. 121.