He had observed that Sthenic patients, when bled, died: the superstition and medical usage of the age prescribed bleeding, and when the fat abbots came to be bled, he bled them freely and with satisfaction.
"The Satyricon, Complete"
Petronius Arbiter
We see in them, indeed, all the vehemence and self-destructive forces of "Sthenic" disease-disease as it occurs in strong men struck down in full health.
"Feminism and Sex-Extinction"
Arabella Kenealy