Sentence:  On turning around, I was instantly rivetted by his amazing emaciation; he seemed another "Lazarus, come forth" without his grave-clothes, ... Below the ribs, the trunk so immediately curves in, that the red band of the silk covering, though it is only loosely placed, seems a tourniquet to constrict the bowels within their prison-house, and the hip-bones, being of their natural size, the waist is like a wasp's. By this part of the frame we are reminded of some descriptions of the <WSD>abstemious</WSD> and Bedouin Arab of the desert, in whom it is said the abdomen seems to cling to the vertbræ. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate. (From early 17th c.)