Louis Armstrong

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"What is jazz? Man, if you have to ask you'll never know."
-Louis Armstrong

Here seen with his wife in Egypt.

Although the term did not exist during his lifetime, there is much evidence to indicate that Louis Armstrong may have been bulemic. He believed that it didn't matter what you ate, as long as you purged yourself regularly afterwards. He would do that with the help of an herbal laxative called Swiss Kriss, and even handed out mimeographed sheets on his diet regimen to friends. In all probability, this contributed to the health problems he suffered in the last years of his life.