Dissertation on Loathing and Hatred

...there are some who, from their first day of life, have so thoroughly turned away from and hated Wine, Beer, Cheese, Butter, Milk, Honey, Eggs, and products made from them, as well as Chickens, Meat, Fish, Oil, and other things of that kind. They were not only unable to consume or digest any of these through the mouth, but could not even bear to look at them, or at least endure their smell. I judge that anyone who denies all this is worthy of the WHIP OF EXPERIENCE original: SCUTICA EXPERIENTIÆ. A metaphor meaning that practical experience should be the teacher for those who stubbornly deny reality., along with Scaliger Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), a famous Renaissance scholar known for his works on natural history..

The Emperor Constantine, as Marcellinus relates, never tasted an Apple. Nor could Wladislaus Jagiello, once King of the Poles, endure their smell. There was even a certain common man who could not be brought, even by threats, to touch a peeled apple with his hands, though he could handle a whole one quite well and pleasantly.

Quercetus Joseph Duchesne (c. 1544–1609), a French physician and chemist., Secretary to the King of the French, writes of a certain man driven from a banquet by the mere sight of Apples; and if they were brought to his nose—an extraordinary example of antipathy original Greek: ἀντιπαθείας (antipatheias), meaning a natural or instinctive contrariety or aversion. or miraculous discord—he would even shed a great amount of blood. This is remarkable, given that we read that Aristotle's life was actually prolonged for a time by the very sweet smell of apples.

Weinrichius, a physician of Breslau original: Vratislaviensis. Martin Weinrich (1548–1601) was a philosopher and physician who wrote on medical oddities., in his Book on Monsters, mentions a person who could not endure not only the smell, sight, or eating of Eels, but could not even remain without great anxiety in a house where a live one was hidden.

And there was a certain man who, as often as he ate Strawberries—even those he had gathered with his own hand—immediately fell into a skin affliction. In this state, swelling, redness, and itching would arise throughout his whole body, as if he were suffering from dry scabies; yet this defilement of the skin vanished after a few days.

From Marcellus Donatus A 16th-century Italian physician known for recording rare medical cases., it is clear that a certain boy...