Joseph Wallace (vegetarian)

Joseph Wallace (born c. 1821 – 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. 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". Wallace patented, prepared and sold several medicines, while also providing consultations.

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

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).

Wallace died in London on 29 April 1910.

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

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 
 * Cholera: Its Prevention and Home Cure 
 * The Necessity of Smallpox as an Eradicator of Organic Disease