, 1880-07-24
FORTY DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.

THE UNDERTAKING THAT DR. TANNnR, THE
FAsTlHG NAN, BReAN MONDAY.
At noon Monday DIR. ii. s. Tanner of
Minneapolis, MIMI, who starts out as the
champion fasting man, began his attempt
to go forty days without food. with the ex-
ception OF water, if that may be called
food. In preparation of his long "between
meals" he took a quart of milk for lbreak-
fast, and another quart at 11.45 A. NJ, for
his dinner. The experiment is to be tried
in Clarendon Hall, East Thirteenth street.
At that place several doctors who are to
have charge of the trial, and who are to-
serve as watchers, day and night, met and
prepared the man for the word 600 ~
They took his weight, 1914 pounds his
pulse, which was Sc; and his temperature.
which was normal. Other examinatiOnsItO
ascertain his physical condition were made.
Ills clothes were searched to make sure
that he hadn't a few bottles of condensed
food about him, and every nook and Gre
vice about the hall was minutely searched,
then a mall table was set in tho middle OF
the hall, and on it were placed two gradu-
ated glasses, a pitcher of water, and o few
instruments used in making simple exami-
nations of bodily secretiOns. A cot was
brought in for the fasting man to lie upon
as he felt so disposed.
DR.. A. E. Falkner was the first to a
charge of the fasting man. He remained
with him until 2.45 o'clock p. M, when he
was relieved by another doctor. at 2.20
the faster drank ten ounces of water. AT
8 o'clock DR.. Tuttle went on n watched
until ITO p. NJ. when he vas relieved by
DR.. Buchanan.
During all this time DR.. Tanner, the
faster, was sitting up talking with callers.
AT about q o'clock he lay down on his
cot but not to sleep. He tumbled about
restlesSly for half an hour, and then got
up and had another long talk with
some more callers, he did not seem to be
fatigued. He says that he will remain
quietly inside the hall for the first ten
days, but that after that he intends to
walk out if he wants to, always to be &C
c%ompanied by two watchers.
DR.. r. A Gum remained with the fas-
ter all night, and reported that Tanner
slept altogether about six hours and q
half. DR.. Tanner breakfasted On eight
ounces of water, which satisfied him till
two o'clock, when he drank eight ounces
again. From L til Ii P. M. he dozed ON
his cot, then got up, stripped, and took .
sponge bath. At about 8 o'clock the
lcLCcA C6EIIoI uIOuSHt uLHu oWV AClVoAcI
both of which were opened by the doctor
then on duty as a watcher. One of these
letters was from Vice. President Gray Of
the New York Neurological Society, sug.
costing that DR.. Tanner defer his expert
ment til fall, when the society would fur
nish a committee to cooperate in having
that experiment carried out with strict
honesty. rigidly and scientifically. DR..
Tanner replied that he had spent five
weeks trying to get the society to do
what it now offered to do. The fast had
begun, and he would not stop now He
added that it would give him great plea
sure to nave an additional corps of watch
ers from the members of the Neurological
Society, and he hoped the society would
make haste to send them.
From 6 to 81 O'Clock last evening the
faster dozed again in his cot, and at 81 he
took his eight ounces of water again. That
made eighty ounces in all that he had
drunk during the first thirty tour hours of
his fast.-Amer. Paper, July /.