Lipsius’s Singular Treatise on Food and Drink

...having eaten eggs, his lips swelled, his face was speckled with black and purple spots, and his mouth foamed just as if he had taken, consumed, or devoured poison.

In the same way, a man was found for whom eating Garlic original: Allium triggered lethal symptoms of poisoning, even though in the mouths of all others, garlic is proclaimed and praised as the supreme and secret remedy original: arcanum against poison and the PLAGUE itself.

Amatus Lusitanus João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco (1511–1568), a famous Portuguese physician who documented hundreds of medical cases. relates that a certain monk fell into a faint original: syncopen at the sight and smell of a ROSE; the same thing happened to others when cooked crayfish original: astacis were brought to a banquet.

In Thuringia, as I have learned from the observations of Hübner Bartholomaeus Hübner, a 16th-century physician from Erfurt., there once lived a man of tall stature and a clearly athletic build, who throughout his whole life never tasted meat, never fish, never milk, never butter, never cheese, never eggs, never honey, nor any preparations made from them. Indeed—and this is worthy of even greater wonder—he could never eat BREAD, which Homer The Greek poet; the phrase "marrow of men" refers to the life-sustaining nature of grain. calls the "marrow of men" and the Holy Scriptures Specifically Psalm 104:15: "bread which strengtheneth man's heart." call the "strength of the heart." He could eat it neither in solid bits nor in porridge, but instead lived only on the fruits of trees, legumes, turnips, grapes, raisins, and other such things born from our nourishing mother earth. He maintained his health excellently in this way, until, at nearly sixty years of age, he was finally released from human affairs A Latin idiom meaning he passed away..

And in Weimar original: Vinariæ. A city in Germany renowned as a courtly residence of the Dukes of Saxony., which is near us, there once lived a certain man who immediately changed color in his face and suffered a total loss of spirit whenever he noticed even a crumb of bread cast into a drink—whether by accident or on purpose. He was affected this way as soon as he opened and brought the cup to his mouth, even if he had not yet actually spotted the crumb.