“Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain…. And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.”

—  Robert Burton, book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

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