The daily gazette., 1880-07-01
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| BEING MADE By DIR. TANNER IN
| NEW YORK TO LIVE DAYS AND
| EAT NOTHING.
NEW YORK, June 3O.-The efforts
now being made by DR.. Tanner to live
40 days without taking food, is attract
ing considerable attention. DIR. Tanner,
up to p. m. yesterday took no food in
his forty-day fast. Yesterday morning
he was given sixteen ounces of water.
His condition is good, and since noon
Monday he has had seven hours sleep.
Sir Isaac Newton is said to have re-
duced his diet TO the bare necessities of
living while applying himself to the
most erudite mathematical and astron-
problems. He found that eating little
clarified his intellect and strengthened
his logical powers. Spareness OF diet is
also favorable to religious meditation;
but this, we suppose, is only the case
where the s.arver has passed trium
phantly through the first pangs The
taking in of great quantity OF meat
three times per day at once fires the
passions and increases slugglsLness of
temperament. The passions do not
thrive SO we'll on farinacia, but the
brain and the muscles are well fed by it.
Ii the professional famisher from
Minneapolis succeeds he will have a
score of imitators, most of whom will
prove frauds. 1t is natural that DR..
Hammond should not wish his name
connected with anyone who, in his
opinion, comes under this domination
already. Meanwhile, the faster is
already announcing that the bad air of
New York, as compared with that of
Minnesota, and his own bad condition,
render failure likely.
The Doctor says that he proposes to
do without food entirely (unless water
is food) for forty days. Water he takes
sparngly. When he formally beguc, at
half-past twelve p. NJ, Monday, Drs.
Wark, professor of the United States
Medical College; II. A. Gum, Joseph
r. Buchanan, of the Eclectic College;
Joseph Dobson, j. Tuttle and Professor
Vanderweyde, of the Practical Ameri-
can, were presentat Clarendon. Hall.
| They stripped him and examined him
and his clothing, and failed to find any
food concealed. He was weighed, and
balanced the beam at 1914 pounds,
which he says is fully twenty pounds
less than his usual weight. Although
ha seemed in good condition, he says lie
does not consider that he IS really SO for
SO great feat. He fears that the air,
which is so different in New York from
that in Minnesota, will not be favorable
to the test, and altogether he does not
express himself as very confident of
success. He says, however, that he
shall continue the trial, and invites tie
most critical examination during the
ftsNaA haE E.ofa l.. Al
medical fraternity. A book is provided,
in which record is kept of the hours
by the doctors who watch, Drs. Gum,
Falkner and Wark having performed
that office yesterday, and for the present
the public 10 free to enter the hall at all
hours.
called on the doctor to-day. He is a
short stoutly built man, with gray hair
and whiskers and keen gray eyes, and
bushy eyebrows. He is foIty-nine years
of age. In the middle of the room stands
his cot bed. The temperature Of bis body
was 81, and his pulse still regular. His
glass of water weighs ten ounces.
Ii DR.. Tanner succeeds he will get
1000. DR.. Hammond, ex-Surgeon-
General, says: 81 have to say that do
not propose to let him escape by q side
issue. The whole question Is simply this:
l have offered DR.. Tanner $1,000 to live
forty days without taking any kind OF
nourishment. 1t is easy enough for him
TO humbug the public, or even deceive
clever non-professional watchers. He
can secrete enough concentrated food in
his clothing to last him sixty days. Dried
OK blood is subjected to hydraulic pres
sure so that quart of ordinary OK blood
may be compressed into a cubic inch of
space. The Latin name for 1t is sanguis
bovInous exsiccatus, which means
desiccat blood. Three drachms of it
taken every twenty-four hours will sup
port life.
"There are many ways in which the
man eau delude even wary observers and
make them think that he lives without |
sustenance. He can have concentrated |
essence of beef put in the water brought |
him to wash, and when pretending to |
cleanse his face or his teeth, he can suck |
it iuto his mouth without exciting sus-
picion. An ounce of OK blood forced |
through the skin with a morphine in |
jector will get into the circulation and |
do as much towards sustaining life as
would teacup of blood drank in the |
ordinary way. A syringe charged and |
concealed in the clothing eau be made to |
pierce the flesh and feed the blood with
food without anyone knowing it. 1t is ca y
to soak handkerchiefs and clothing in
of beef tea or arrow root,
and support the system by sucking them.
My offer of $1,000 10 always open 10
Tanner, or any one else. l will not 90 !
near him, but leave him to DR.. Dalton,
ofthe College of Physicians. and Surgeons
to DR.. Flint, of Bellevue and to DR..
Arnold, OF the University of New York.
If they say the man does not cheat |
will pay the money. But he cannot es-
cape us.
DR.. Tanner has completed thirty
.hree hours of his forty days fast at
Clarendon Hall at nine O'CLOCK last ever
ng. He has been wotched carefully, day
and night, by committee of physicians
md during the thirty-three hours he has
eaten nothing. He has drank, however
ounces of Croton water. He
was extremity cheerful last evening, and
oked freely with visitors. He was the
OF letter from DR.. Landon
Carer Gray, vice president, and acting
president of the Neurological Society in
which that gentleman said he would call
. meeting and have committee of
physicians appointed by the society. DIR.
Tanner replied that he would be pleased !
10 afford such committee every oppoI tu-
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