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Joseph Wallace | |
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 Portrait from Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898) | |
| Born | c. 1821 Ireland |
| Died | April 29, 1910 (aged 89) London, England |
| Resting place | Brookwood Cemetery |
| Other names | Lux et Lux |
| Occupations |
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| Known for | Activism for vegetarianism and against vaccination |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 7 |
Joseph Wallace (born c. 1821 – 29 April 1910) was an Irish–British alternative medicine practitioner, patent medicine creator, writer, and activist. He developed the "Wallace system", promoting a vegetarian diet free of fermented foods, and sold patented medicines alongside consultations. With his wife, Chandos Leigh Hunt, he co-authored Physianthropy (1885) under the pseudonym "Lex et Lux".
Biography
[edit]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 who delivered speeches included Wallace (then aged 84), C. P. Newcombe, T. A. Hanson, Samuel Saunders, John E. B. Mayor and Samuel Pitman, brother of Isaac Pitman.[7]
Wallace died at Russell Square, London on 29 April 1910, at the age of 89.[8][9] He was buried at Brookwood Cemetery on 3 May.[8]
Legacy
[edit]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]
Rollo Russell cited Wallace's dietary recommendations in the "Medical Testimony" section of his 1906 book Strength and Diet.[10] C. P. Newcombe's The Manifesto of Vegetarianism (1911) contains a memorial dedication to Wallace.[11]
Publications
[edit]- 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[12]
- Cholera: Its Prevention and Home Cure[12]
- The Necessity of Smallpox as an Eradicator of Organic Disease[12]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Korshelt, Oskar (1890). The Wallace System of Cure (PDF). Glasgow, London: H. Nisbet & Co. p. 5.
- ^ "Vegetarianism Spreading among the Upper Ten in London". The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health. 119 (1). January 1906.
- ^ Davis, Sally (16 October 2019). "Isabel De Steiger's Art Works Alphabetical by Title". Roger Wright & Sally Davis. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Elsley, Susan Jennifer (April 2012). Images of the witch in nineteenth-century culture (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Liverpool.
- ^ "Diet and Longevity" (PDF). Herald of the Golden Age. 10 (4): 75. October 1905.
- ^ a b "Deaths (continued)". The Times. 2 May 1910. p. 1. Retrieved 27 January 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Deaths Jun 1910". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
- ^ Russell, Francis Albert Rollo (1906). Strength and Diet: A Practical Treatise with Special Regard to the Life of Nations. London: Longmans, Green. pp. 390.
- ^ "The manifesto of vegetarianism / by C.P. Newcombe". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ a b c Florence, Daniel (1917). The Healthy Life Cook Book. London: C. W. Daniel. p. 121.