A pioneering 1915 guide to vegetarian nutrition written by a woman who practiced medicine when few women did. Dora Roper brings her clinical experience to bear on a question that still resonates: what does the body actually need, and can we get it without meat? She breaks down food into categories, explains which combinations sustain energy and which sabotage digestion, and offers recipes rooted in the conviction that scientific eating is moral eating. This isn't fad diet writing. It's careful, evidence-informed work from an era when vegetarianism was still fighting for respectability, and Roper treats her readers as capable adults who want to understand the why behind their plates. For anyone curious about where modern plant-based nutrition came from, or how early 20th-century thinkers tackled the same questions we do now.
