291 goVa tit Vittrra, PROVERBIAL MEDICINE. PROVERBS OF DIET. As miglht be expected, many proverbs the very general and often well founded belief in tIme value of diet, and reference has been ruade (JOURNAL, January 25tll, p. 178) to suclh nmaxims as oures iiiore than the lancet" and " 1Use first I)r. Merrinlan, and Dr. Diet '; but tisere malny otlher adages whiclh illtustrate and exemplify special this widespread and in many cases well alnd to some of t'sese proverbic expressions will now be

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... ected. To begin witlh Homer,l somehave read AaL9E-tciq (an equal repast) an early Greek care in dieting among the gods of Olympus, the have thus been-used with something of proverbial force; but it has, on the other side, b6edn maintained expression means no more than the '.banquet slhared." Even if this objectionhold good, hlowever, is the maxim which has been ascribed Tleognis, according to which I, Surfeit has killed tllan famine" (7reXX6i -ro vfXovas X1LMO0 KOpOT cWX pas); .mnd Hippocrates2 had an aphorism that"Everything cxcess is inimical to Nature" (7riiv yapro Tr'oX1V7rokALOV s) "Outlandish Proverbs" there is one -whbich says, Contrasting the evil effect of over-eating suppertime with the good results followi P'actice, "By suppers more have been killed than Galen e!ver curedl"; and of tllis tliere seems to Danish