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 (1577-1640)
-- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1
