Grand completed his doctoral thesis in medicine on cataract removal in 1873.[2] Grand was a physician at the École de Médecine de Paris (Paris School of Medicine).[3] He was an associate editor of the 1893 and 1894Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences and Analytical Index.[4][5]
Grand was the president of theFrench Vegetarian Society from its formation in 1899.[6] He was elected to the management committee in 1905 with biologistJules Lefèvre and other physicians.[7] By 1906 there were 800 members of the Society.[6] In 1901, the Society published his bookLa Philosophie de I' alimentation ("The Philosophy of Food").[6] Grand also authored the introduction to Louise Smeeckaert'sLa table du végétarien, published by the Society.[8]
Grand made anatomical, physiological and ethical arguments for vegetarianism.[1] In June 1900, he was chairman and a speaker at theInternational Vegetarian Congress organized in Paris.[9] In his speech he commented "that vegetarianism contributes powerfully to making the better man; that it ensures his intellectual capacity; softens his relations with his fellow men and makes them more fraternal".[1] He argued in his essays that meat is responsible for the degeneration of the French nation.[10] He stated that avegetarian diet could prevent the misuse of alcohol.[11] A paper he wrote on vegetarianism was read at theInternational Vegetarian Union's 1926 congress.[12] He was an opponent ofvivisection.[13]
Grand combinedTheosophy and vegetarianism in his bookHygiene rationnelle vegetarisme ("Rational Hygiene, Vegetarianism"), published in 1912, stating that humans have a responsibility to protect animals. His vegetarianism incorporated theosophical ideas of anastral body andreincarnation.[6] Grand also lectured on Theosophy in Amsterdam.[6]
^Société végétarienne de France (1930).La table du végétarien [The Vegetarian's Table] (in French). Introduction by Jules Grand; preface by Hélène Sosnowska. Paris:French Vegetarian Society.OCLC717061043.
