"Persons of a gross relaxed habit of body, the flabby, and red-haired, ought always to use a drying diet. Such as are fat, and desire to be lean, should use exercise fasting; should drink small liquors a little warm; should eat only once a day, and no more than will just satisfy their hunger."
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Polybus, as translated by James Mackenzie in The History of Health (1759), p. 130
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