Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Moral letters to Lucilius (№ 414872)

Medicine was once reduced to the knowledge of a few herbs that stopped bleeding, healed wounds, and then gradually it came to the present variety. And it is not surprising that he had less to do when people were still strong and strong in body, and food was light and not spoiled by the art of receiving pleasure. Only later did they need food that did not satisfy, but incite hunger, and hundreds of seasonings were invented to inflame gluttony, and what was food for the hungry became a burden for the fifth.