The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-11
GLUrTOxS AND ELIMINATING MEN.
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Pursuing our search after knowledge
: we find that Daniel Sennertus, an
eminent physician of Germany, who
2 died in 1919, states that he knew 4
man who Tuminated, and accounted
fOr.it by attributing it to the fact that
r he was fed on milk warm from the
COW in consequence of the death Oi
/ his mother at his birth.
, In Schenck's "Medical Observa-
tiOns," 1870, there is a quotation from
T the writings of Cornelius Gennua,
wherein Is mentioned a woman who
> was unable to restrain herself from
eating or drinking, for if che did she
. would experience all the sensations
of strangling. This disease, to which
she had been subject from childhood,
increased upon her with her age. When
dead, her stomach was opened, and
almost twenty pounds of fat taken
, therefrom her liver was found turgid
: with blood and spirits, intensly red
! and of an incredible size.
; In the same work he states that
there was ga man fifty years of age,
: who from his youth, was wont, with
strange kind of greedience, to take
in all sorts of food, and as speedily to
: eject them" He adds that "this kind
; of hunger did seize him at stated
times; that his strong appetite lasted
, not above twenty days; that for 50
many days after he had lOathing OF
all things, and that the rest of the
year he ate sparingly and lived in good
health"
That the legal professor have been
addicted to the habit-nOt Of stuffing
the pocket, but the stOmaeh-we are
made aware from the fact that law
Yer by the name of Mallet, We'll
!. known in the reign of Charles /. 162j
to 1897 ate at one time a meal pro-
vided in Westminster for thirty men
at twelve pence apiece. His practice
not being sufficiently large to supply
him with better sort of meat, he fed
generally on offals, OK livers, hearts,
&c. He lived to almost sixty years
of age, and for the last seven years of
his life eat as moderately as other
men.
Probably one of the most famous
gluttons who have been handed down
to pOsterity was Nicholas Wood, of
Harrison, in the county of Kent,
England. He is said to have eaten a
raw sheep at one time, and on anOth-
er occasion he did not hesitate to find
room for thirty dozen of pigeons. One
day, being at the house of Sir William
Sedley, he ate as much us would suf-
flee for thirty men, and his stomach
had to be annointed with grease and
butter to make it stretch and hold.
Shortly afterwards, being at Lord
WOtton's, in Kent, he devOuFed in one
meal eighty-fOur rabbits; another
time, eighteen yards of black pudding,
London measure. Two lOins of NUT
t,5n, and one lbin of veal We're but as
three mOuthfuls to him, and, having
once partaken of cherries, he said they
were but waste meat. He is known
to have made away with a whole hog,
and afterwards swallowed three pecks
Of plums this was after breakfast, at
which he had taken bowl of milk, a
bowl of pOttage, with bread, butter
and cheese. Taylor, the water poet,
said I'm my presence that she ate six
| penny wheaton loves, three sixpenny
veal pies, one pound of fresh butter,
one good dish of thOrnback, and the
silver Of peck household loaf, an
inch thick, all within the space of an
hour; the house yielding no more, lie
retired unsatisfied."
a man of his nOtOriety, however,
could not exist for a long time with
out receiving a challenge in some form
or other. John Dale, an inhabitant of
Lehman, laid him a wager that he
would fill his belly for him with good
and wholesome Vfctuals for two shil-
Iings. This wager he accepted, and
said that when he had finished all that
was provided for him he would have
no hesitation in attacking sirlOin of
beef. Dale, whose thoughts were Gen.
tered on saving the meat, placed be-
fore him twelve lOaves of bread, which
had been previously sOpped in six pots
of strong ale. The Intoxicating quail
ties of the latter Overcame this glut-
tOnOus cOnquerOr, and he was fast
asleep before he had finished the meal.
Nicholas Wood wasted all his property
in providing food for his stomach, and
died almost beggar in 1880.
Turning our attention to France we
| find that Richard DinOth, writer Of
that sunny land, who died i'll 1850, de-
clares that "Aristus, an Arcadian, Mt
one supper usually eat as much bread,
flesh and other provisions as would
abundantly satisfy six ordinary per-
sons at Il meal"
In the philosophical Transactions
for 1851" there is an account by DIR.
Frederick Stare of ruminating man,
living at Bristol, England, described
as person of illiterate parents, but
of tOlerable sense and reason, who
had followed the practice from his
earliest years, and always found
| temporary deprivation of the faculty
| the sure precursor of illness. He be-
gan to chew his meat for the second
time within quarter of an hour after
his meal, if he drank with it but if
| not the process of masticatiOn did not
commence until some time afterwards,
and invariably lasted an hour and 4
half. Ifhe retired soon after his meals
sleep never visited his weary eyelids
until the time for chewing had passed
by. Whatever passed down first came
up first to be chewed, and the second
masticatiOn was always attended with
greater satisfaction than the first, for
after the latter the food never failed
to lay heavy in the lower part Of the
throat.
Lynceus tells us of Anthony Recchi,
who was obliged to retire from the
dinner table to ruminate undisturbed,
and who declared that the second pro-
cess of masticatiOn twas sweeter than
honey, and accompanied with de-
lightful relish"
Pyer affirmed that two of his cOun-
trymen acquired the habit from imi-
tating the chewing Of the calves and
sheep with which their vocation assO-
ciated them.
Thomas Hearne, the antiquary, in
his diary under date Of January II,
IT23, mentions a man who had been
at Oxford but a short time previous.
He writes that this person was re-
markable for his appetite, which led
him to devOur large quantities OF raw,
haIf-putrid meat. The story told re-
specting him was, that he had once
attempted to initiate the Saviour in
forty days Lent fast, and was taken
with this unnatural way Of eating"
Robinson, tinman by trade, who
dwelt in HOlbOrn, England, in 1853,
possessed a stomach which was so
wonderfully constructed that it would
contain any quantity of food he chose
to swallow, and could discharge 1t
again i'm the same state before 1t was
eaten. He would eat a hundred or
more oysters, and produce them again
on a disE as if they had just been
opened, and he performed the same
feat likewise with eels, or any small
fish. .-r
In the London Annual Register, un-
der date of October l, 1867, we read the
following account from WmbOurne,
i'm Dorsefshire: "a few days ago died
here, Roger Gill, shoemaker, and one
of our singing men, aged about sixty
seven, remarkable for chewing his
meat or cud twice over, as an OK,
sheep or COW. He seldom made any
breakfast in his latter days; he gen-
erally dined about twelve or one
O'Clock, eat pretty heartily and quick,
without much chewing or rmasticatiOn.
He never drank with his dinner, but
afterwards about pint of such malt
liquor a. he could get; but no sort of
spirituous liquors in any shape, except
a little punch, and never cared for
that. He usually began his second
chewing about a quarter or half an
hour, sometimes later, after dinner,
when every mOrsel came up success
,,l 10 tho faEfa