Joseph Wallace (vegetarian) explained

Joseph Wallace
Birth Place:	Ireland
Death Place:	London, England
Known For:	Activism for vegetarianism, food reform and against vaccination
Children:	7

Joseph Wallace (born – 29 April 1910) was a British-Irish 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. The system included a vegetarian diet, free from fermented foods; its followers were known as "Wallaceites".^[2] Wallace patented, prepared and sold several medicines, while also providing consultations.^[3]

In 1878 he married Chandos Leigh Hunt,^[4] his former patient and pupil.^[5] In 1885, with his wife, he co-wrote Physianthropy: Or, the Home Cure and Eradication of Disease, writing under the pseudonym "Lex et Lux".^[6] 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 (1898).

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 (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
• The Necessity of Smallpox as an Eradicator of Organic Disease

Notes and References

1. Book: Forward, Charles Walter . Charles W. Forward . Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England . The Ideal Publishing Union, The Vegetarian Society . 1898 . London, Manchester . 132–134.
2. January 1906. Vegetarianism Spreading among the Upper Ten in London. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health. 119. 1.
3. Web site: Davis. Sally. 2019-10-16. Isabel De Steiger's Art Works Alphabetical by Title. 2021-02-27. Roger Wright & Sally Davis.
4. Book: Owen, Alex. University of Chicago Press. 2004. 0-226-64205-4. Chicago. 134. 53434582.
5. Elsley. Susan Jennifer. Images of the witch in nineteenth-century culture. April 2012. PhD. University of Liverpool.
6. Book: Korshelt, Oskar. The Wallace System of Cure. H. Nisbet & Co.. 1890. Glasgow, London. 5.
7. October 1905. Diet and Longevity. Herald of the Golden Age. 10. 4. 75.
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. Book: Russell, Francis Albert Rollo . Strength and Diet: A Practical Treatise with Special Regard to the Life of Nations . Longmans, Green . 1906 . London . 390.
10. Web site: The manifesto of vegetarianism / by C.P. Newcombe. . 2021-02-22 . Wellcome Collection . en.
11. Book: Florence, Daniel. The Healthy Life Cook Book. C. W. Daniel. 1917. London. 121.