And this I know, moreover, that to the human body it
makes a great difference whether the bread be fine or coarse;
of wheat with or without the hull, whether mixed with much
or little water, strongly wrought or scarcely at all, baked or
raw—and a multitude of similar differences; and so, in like manner, with the cake (maza); the powers of each, too, are
great, and the one nowise like the other. Whoever pays
no attention to these things, or, paying attention, does not
comprehend them, how can he understand the diseases which
befall a man?
Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine, vs. 14.
(Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, 2 vols., trans. Francis Adams, London: Printed for the Sydenham Society, 1849, vol. 1, p. 169-170.)
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