SC - More Misinformation {LONG}

[Jenne Heise]

> Well, the excesses of the Greeks and Romans seem to be
> fairly well known... and the need for a "vomitorium"
> speaks volumes.  Were these excesses based upon fact,
> or are they a modern assumption based upon a cursory
> reading of the more bawdy tales of the day?  I can't
> say for certain.  Did this practice of over-indulgence
> cross the temporal borders from antiquity to the
> Middle Ages?  I don't think so, personally.  At least,
> not as often as the author in question would have us
> believe.

Purging (from either end) was a standard medical practice in the middle ages but I don't
remember seeing it specifically linked with overindulgence of food, or in fact with the
symptoms thereof. 

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