First, as for the word bulimy, it was agreed upon by all to denote a great and public famine, especially among us who use the Aeolic dialect, putting [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted].

For it was not called by the ancients [Greek omitted] but [Greek omitted], that is, [Greek omitted], much hunger.

We concluded that it was not the same with the disease called Bubrostis, by an argument fetched out of Metrodorus's Ionics.

For the said Metrodorus informs us that the Smyrnaeans, who were once Aeolians, sacrificed to Bubrostis a black bull cut into pieces with the skin on, and so burnt it.

Now, forasmuch as every species of hunger resembles a disease, but more particularly Bulimy, which is occasioned by an unnatural disposition of the body, these two differ as riches and poverty, health and sickness.