Leaving these quarters, they marched the whole of the next day over snow, and many of the men were afflicted with "boulimia" (or hunger-faintness). From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
Diseases of the digestive apparatus are discussed under the headings of difficulties of deglutition, canine appetite, bolismus (boulimia), disturbances of thirst, eructations, hiccup, nausea and anorexia, vomiting, anathimiasis (gastric debility), anatropha and catatropha. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Xenophon, who was guarding the rear, came upon some men who had dropt down, and he did not know what ailed them; but some one who was experienced in such matters suggested to him that they had evidently got boulimia; and if they got something to eat, they would revive. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
“boulimia” (or hunger-faintness). From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
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