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said I, “that we do not
think it proper to say of the body either that it is destroyed by the
badness of foods themselves, whether it be staleness or rottenness or
whatever it is;1 but when
the badness of the foods themselves engenders in the body the defect of
body, then we shall say that it is destroyed owing to these foods, but
by2 its own vice, which
is disease.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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