The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-13
STARVING TANNER.
Watching the poct0r During His
Forty Days Fast.

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Forty Days Fast.
TuIHTgEx DAYS WITHOUT SOLID OR LIQUID
FOOD CHANGES WROUGHT IN APPEARANCE
AND Neutrality-suspicious. FAVORABLE AND
| uNFAvoBABLE-o OTHER STARf fERs-A
CHANGE.
NEW York, July I0.-The depressing
effect which accusaions OF taking food sur
replltiously have had upon DR.. Tanner, the
forty-day faster, are wearing on as ne
learns that the public places li.tle credencc
In them. and last night after midnight he
rested unusually well. About a. NJ. he
rinsed his mouth without swallowing any
water. had the window raised and then went
10 sleep again, awaklng at O'Clock TO rinse
his mouth. An hour later he ccmplaineu
NJ feeling cnld-hot and sultIy ~ tne
NIGHT was-and blanket was gwen MN.
He slept quietly until 6, when. his clothihg
bavino been searched. he dressed himsen
and read aud cried over the morning pape's.
rrho nsners read. he went TO sleep again ana
silent until 10, waking at Intervals 10 nois'eh
bis mouth Then he went into the large
hall 10 receive visitors, remaining luefe ioi
an hour and half. lis appearance was
greatly improved as compired WIN ,ne va!
beierc his pulse was strong, his voice GEAR
his owes were brig hter and he showed more
energy and briskness. At noon be COM
nleted his twelfth day OF fasting, ana the
doctors attending bin sag that MS con-
dition is better than at any time curing
ltbe INST week His pulse Is ~, ana
his bodily condition other" lse uncnangeu'
nvcen, Inv the loss Of about ls pounds IN
WEIGHT SO far his loss of weight amounts
70 OH pounds. Dr.. Tanners improved
condition agrees with the prediction ne
made a week ago, that after the tenlh or
eleventh day all the trouble and inconvenl-
! ence of the prolonged fast would pe over
and he expects for the remaining twenty
= ejrbt days to have no unpleasant SENSATIONS
or SYMPTOMS. The two comicai phases ot
/ the remarkable ieat-tbe tight between tDs
4 =, roauIor,5 and the eclectic" doctors, ard
$40 1ood or communications from George
Francis Train-are tho1ght to ee ABOUT
c over Some Of Trains poStalcard bulletins
! have been unique, and DR.. Tanner has Deen
L much annoyed Dy tDeil' Vuo vi H''
: reads as follows: r, J..
3 Citizen DIR. Tanner QasteD: stand by
your guns. DON'T give up the snip:
e breaihed but seven quarts oil oxygen yes
terday. leaving all the rest TO you Science
nheckmatps ailment! | will never drink an
other drop! II YOU succeed my psycDology
oione wins the prize! Having given uI
lectures. press. and peanuts, propose tC
hire Ste;nway and hold my tongue win
tunipc-fork for seven years, thihs nav
NOT done for twenty campaigns lor Tue pc
sidencv! Come to my bench and get cop'
, Of my life | once lived nine'y-three uay'
y on the echo OF my own name. sun ;
into an empty caSk, and breatheu OUT III
rich refrain-Train, YOU know, na' ia
0 Not drop OF food or paruc'e OF ""te
IN fsr.- aiXfppD weeks.
S. LETTERS FROM OTHER FAsTERs.
- 7, tho course Of the day Dir. Tanner re
ic ce;yed letter from DR.. George Ii. LVarlS
% ,xho claims IA have been a pretty cXienslv
faster himself. Among other things III
- Evarts wrote; :; H.
think YOU are making mistake IN az
4. staining from water as YOU do. Hammond
vacaries about water being food IS only tru
ID in The sense that air is food. AS yet yo
have accomplished very little. The cN
,recsed oninions OF some OF your pseuGc
- medical friends predicting delirium. &c
ore very sillv. In January, 1876, 1 al
steined totally from all food except al
= and water for 224 hours. During ina
les time I delivered seven lectures IN Iremof
g TennIe TO audiences varying from l,5V0 I
. gao. During the day was constantly a
tending to business. My mind ana Do9
were never in better working capaci'y' vi
weight diminished about twoand ohe-iouIl
III mounds per day. think you sDouIu nay
sR commenced your task in iull nesn. 1ne'
M Is no doubt OF your success II you keep COO
"a drink moderately Of water, ana reinal
i o,,iet Do not worry about Hammond h
has not the confidence OF such men as u
senior DR.. Flint. Your success VIII excl
discussion on the relations OF diet ana giu
tonv IN nrpyalent disease.
DIR. Tanner also received letter lrO
Mollie Fincher, the starving girl 0I brOo
err Iyn, but has so far refused TO make II pu
ges lie.
II, II: DR.. Tanner is fity.iour years old, AZ
r.; gray. haired He soemnly aflirms that
an; IS not hungry, not the least. He could W
ma I1 himself hungry il he wished, but he Wi
M himself The other way, and all Is wei.
&c; there il anv fraud in bis case 1t Is so We
for concealed that il is not yet apparent. Eve
n time he puts on so much as clean c!ildr
. is searched TO see that he does not lmDl
onv nouri.hment through bis clothes. i
:, heddjpp was carefully examined. and .
"a hody is allowed to shake hands with III
Iest food be conveyed % that manner.
DIR. II. B. Plunkett, who has watched |
faster. saws be is satisfied that Tanner IS 81
cere. He said that Gin case OF break
down OF Tanners system the pulse ana tel
a nersture would first become deran@eu. L
- blood and tissue, you know, may wear o
@ by continued lack Of the nourlshins ioic'
fb They might get feyerish and excited, sho
ing symptoms o; delirium IN the patle
similar to those OF drunken person. NO
}. OF those symptoms have yet manifested the
selves" Several physicians have made Cal
- fuI chemical analysis, and certify TO the IL
N that DR.. Tanner has not paItaken OF any 10
- recently. aud this sets at rest doubts sol
have hsd In the matter. DR.. Weeks, one
the "reguars," said % Thoroughly beiie
that the man has not tasted a morsel OF 10
since he began his fast. His waste of ilss
and decrease OF weight since the beginni
are very good evidence that he Is fasti
=. precisely as he proposed to do. The wa
"a corresponds to about what man Win
- moderate appetite would consume-7iron
nound aud hall to two pounds u
When nrst serutinizcd Dr. Tanners il
- with DIR. Spiika thought IL had tne
= pearance Of that OF a man who lad be
. taking opium--and opium might susli
III the man's life--but feel as conndent d
ms a man can feel that this expression
caused by the loss Of blood in The BRA
which IS one OF the results OF iong-c
tinued fasting
TASsER's PRESENT APPEARANCE.
IN. During the week the Doctors full, p
! ot ssn, face has become emaclaied nnd u