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A small and slender diet in long and lingering diseases is al∣ways dangerous, and in sharp dis∣eases likewise, when it is not con∣venient, and again diet reduced to extreme slenderness, is as full of peril, as extreme repletion, and fulness in laborious and painful.
In this Aphorism Hippocrat•••• speaks, of the diet which fick men ought to use.