The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-12 00:00:00

ABSTINENCE FROM FOOD.

Of an extraordinary case of abstinence froni food,
the Strbgbrdshire Advertiser speaks thus:—
" It is not upon light authority that we should
choose to give insertion to the following case. Sup-
ported, however, as we are by the credence of the
most respectable Gentlemen of the Faculty, who'
are desirous to draw.the attention of the prolesston
to further inquiry' on the subjeLa, we proceed to de-
tail the following particulars, which are formed
from the different communications of&edical men

Ann Moor,- a poor woman of Tuthury; in this
county, has lived upwards of, 14 months without
food ! The testimony of the woman herself was of
course discredited, and she consented to be removed
to a neighbour's hbuse, to be watched for any length
of time that was deemed sufficient to give a colour
of truth to her report. This was accordingly done,
and she was constantly watched jbr 17 days and
nights, and regularly visited by three surgeons once
or tFice a day. Till the end of 14 clays she did not
even drink any water,which she had been accustomed
to do in very small quantifies, when she felt a nausea
at her stomach. She now finds that this is removed
by wetiing.her tongue with damp cloths, by which
she escapes the pain of swallowing as before, which
was very considerable. During thelength of time
of the above 14 months abstinence, water and
tea, without either milk or sugar, had beeAher only
beverage:She has been in bed the whole of the time.
Hef pulse is very little under the standard of good
health, but, as may be expelled, her frame is exces-
sively reduced.

c‘ WAs this extraordinary woman is still living, we
recommend her case to the attention of the faculty,
and doubt not that they will consider her as a'subjea
deserving of very minute consideration."

DRAWING A BADGER'...--A man of the .name'of
Thomas Lort, well known in West Kent, for catch-
ing moles, badgers, and vipers, in the season, for
the Apothecaries, brought a fresh badger in a bag to
Wrotham last Fair, and having dug a hole in a bank
as deep as a baker's oven, he turned the' badger to
earth, and closing the mouth of the hole with his
sack, offered to bring out the animal in his teeth, if
the crowd would raise him half-a-guinea; which be-
ing pres'ently,done, he entered the place with a short
thick stick. The badger seldom relinquishes its
hold, and he immediately seized the stick. Tom
Lort then fastened his teeth on the nape of the
badger's' neck; and brought the animal forth with
the stick in its mouth, and having several times per-
formed this exploit, retired with his friends to en-
joy the produce of his dexterity.
Monday a boy died of" the hydrophobia, in Little
Windmill-street, Haymarket. He had been bitten
by the dog which bit the person who died lately at
the London Hospital ; a thin person died in West-
minster, also bitten by the same dog. Nine or ten
other persons, who were bitten, are under the great-
est anxiety-respeeting their fate.
The Earl of LONSDALE has signified his intention
of enfranchising his numerous copy-holders through-
out Cumberland and Westmorland, by which popu-
lar meas,are he will be enabled to inclose more
than 20,000 acres of valuable land in those counties,
at this time in a profitless state of commonage.