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nervous attack, lived for two years on a
little curds, or whey and water, and for
? third without any food ar.all, passing
rall three years in state of sleeplessness.
In 1886 Dr. william was called in to at
tend to a monouianiac said to have lived
81 days without food and who survived
II days longer, the physician being able
To force little snstenance into him. A
more f;inous case is that of Ann Moore
} Of S6dbnr9, England, who, at the be-
ginning of the present century, asserted
that she was able to do without food
Her fame spread abroad and brought
Ger crowds Of visitors and 4 good In
home. $3.50 having been derived from
their bounty in two years. She eluded
one test y with success and yentured
upon another, but this time the watch
ers weregKeener, and on the ninth day,
being so4weak that her death seemed
imminent, she Signed a confession that
her story of fasting for six years was a
falsehood. The first watchers had been
deceived for three weeks by her daugh-
tiers giving her foodwhen kissing her Or
when washing her face with towels ,dip-l
ped in milk or cruel, by squeezing the
liquid into her mouth. In 1871 a fast
ing man named CaVanagh appeared at
Reading; he was detected min his
fraud, however, and . November 20,
sent TO prison and stuffed for
three Inohths. In September, 1852,
ElizabethR Squirrel Of Shotteshan,
Suffolk, bamboozled a number of ssmed-
ical men, clergymen, dissenting minis
tiers and members of the aristecracy -
into believing that she had lived fer
three months without food and in the
enjoyment OF. communion with angelic
visitors, but a rigid watch disclosed
fraud. In 1867, began the famous case
of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh Fasting Girl
She was ten wears old and after strong
COMMISSIONS of an epilepiformscharac.
ter gradually lost her appetite till in
October she ate nothing but bit of APP
pie the, size of a pill daily, Even this
she ceased to take on the 10th, and
thereafter till her death, December IL,
1869, according to- her parents and
friends, she 'toobSl mol nntriment of any
kind whatever Her case was soon
fbised abroad TO the great fame and
not inconsiderable profit of her parents, /
a9d many converts were made to belief I
in her truthfulness, including thevicar of |
the parish, who became quite euthusi-
astic. "A systematic fortnight's watch
was attempted in March7April, 1869, but
some of the watchers got drunk, others
slept and still others were considered I
Enthusiastically, so that DR.. Fowler called |
it ''the greatest possible farce and mock |
cry. - In December, four experienced fe-
male nurses from Guys were sent down |
to take entire charge of the child. They !
began their watch on the 9th at 4 p. NJ, 5
on the 10th she was falling so visibly |
that the parents were urged to withdraw
the nurses and give her food, but they |
refused, saying that she had often been
as weak before. On the 9TH at $50 p. |
M. she died-simplyl starved to death!
The heartless parents were indicted for |
and, being convicted,
were sentenced to Imprisonment for the
absurdly inadequate periods of twelve |
and six months respectively. An at
tempt to make out case against the
physicians failed. ,-s as4 s
Such are some of the most remarkable
cases of alleged abstinence from food
during long period. With the cases
Of Miss Fancher and of Louise Lateau
and others in which stigmatizatioE is or
has been noted, our readers are familiar,
rs they also are with many authenticated
instances of continued involuntary fast
ngs as those of imprisoned eoal-miners t
n shipwrecked sailors. Y. World.