Wagner mentions a person
in whom a most insignificant dose of manna had the same effect.
Preslin speaks of a woman who invariably had a hemorrhage after
swallowing a small quantity of vinegar. According to Zimmerman,
some people are unable to wash their faces on account of untoward
symptoms. According to Ganbius, the juice of a citron applied to
the skin of one of his acquaintances produced violent rigors.
Brasavolus says that Julia, wife of Frederick, King of Naples,
had such an aversion to meat that she could not carry it to her
mouth without fainting. The anatomist Gavard was not able to eat
apples without convulsions and vomiting. It is said that Erasmus
was made ill by the ingestion of fish; but this same philosopher,
who was cured of a malady by laughter, expressed his appreciation
by an elegy on the folly. There is a record of a person who could
not eat almonds without a scarlet rash immediately appearing upon
the face. Marcellus Donatus knew a young man who could not eat an
egg without his lips swelling and purple spots appearing on his
face. Smetius mentions a person in whom the ingestion of fried
eggs was often followed by syncope. Brunton has seen a case of
violent vomiting and purging after the slightest bit of egg.
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