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- noun The treatment of disease by reduced diet.
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(noun) - (1) The treatment of disease by abstinence; from Greek limos, hunger.
--Richard Hoblyn's Dictionary of Medicine, 1859
(2) The "hunger cure."
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
January 15, 2018