William Alcott
Sign in to saveAlso known as William A. Alcott, William Andrus Alcott, William Alexander Alcott
American physician and author (1798-1859)
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- 9
Top works
- Young Mother
- Three Days on the Ohio River
- Vegetable Diet As Sanctioned by Medical Men and by Experience in All Ages
- Travel on the Ohio River
- Young Woman's Guide
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,655x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,955x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,031x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,752x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,537x
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Quotes
- “None, so far as I know, will affirm, or at least with any show of reason maintain, that anatomy, so far as that goes, is in favor of flesh-eating.”
- “Political economists tell us that the produce of an acre of land in wheat, corn, potatoes, and other vegetables, and in fruits, will sustain animal life sixteen times as long as when the produce of the same acre is converted into flesh, by feeding and fattening animals upon it.”
- “The destruction of animals for food, in its details and tendencies, involves so much of cruelty as to cause every reflecting individual — not destitute of the ordinary sensibilities of our nature — to shudder.”
- “The world, I mean our own portion of it, sometimes seems to me like one mighty slaughter-house — one grand school for the suppression of every kind and tender and brotherly feeling — one grand process of education to the entire destitution of all moral principle — one vast scene of destruction to all moral sensibility, and all sympathy with the woes of those around us. Is it not so?”
- “No child, I think, can walk through a common market or slaughter-house without receiving moral injury; nor am I quite sure that any virtuous adult can.”
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- 1798-08-06
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- 1859-03-29
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1798 births1859 deaths19th-century American educators19th-century American male writers19th-century American medical doctors19th-century American non-fiction writers19th-century food writersAlcott familyAmerican children's writersAmerican food writersAmerican magazine editorsAmerican male non-fiction writersAmerican organization foundersAmerican vegetarianism activistsAmerican vegetarianism writersFounders of vegetarian organizationsOpponents of tea drinkingPeople associated with physical cultureWriters from Dedham, Massachusetts