13 Facts About Paul Carton

Paul Joseph Edmond Carton was a French physician, naturopath and practitioner of vegetarianism.

Paul Carton received his medical education at the Ecole de Medecine de Paris.

Paul Carton became disillusioned with the medical establishment and took interest in naturopathy and vegetarianism which he claimed helped recover his health.

Paul Carton was a member of the French Vegetarian Society.

Paul Carton believed that strict control of eating would allow patients to be cured.

Paul Carton campaigned against the consumption of butter, meat and white bread.

Paul Carton authored an influential vegetarian cookbook in 1925 which went through many editions.

Paul Carton's recipes focused on fresh fruit and vegetables, grains and large quantities of cream and eggs.

Students of Paul Carton include Andre Schlemmer and Jacques Chauveau.

Paul Carton held the idea that health should be earned and that pain had a purifying role.

Paul Carton believed that humans are a microcosm reflecting the macrocosm of the universe.

Paul Carton argued that humans are constantly evolving as the universe does and that evolution has endowed people with vast states of conscience.

Paul Carton's philosophy combined occultism and vegetarianism into a system of mental and physical health.