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One of the most famous adherents of the liquid diet was the Old West gunfighter Doc Holliday. Although his skeletal countenance is often credited to consumption or tuberculous as it were in fact it was due to his strict adherence to a liquid diet. This diet consist of whisky, tobacco juice, laudanum and flem and was duplicated by a method actor who played the part in a film and lost 150 pounds during the making of the movie. Strangely enough the one liquid that Doc Holiday would never imbibe was the juice of the huckleberry.
(What's That Smell, The History of the Fad Liquid Diet, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, General Mills Press 2011