, 1880-07-11
TANNERS TEST,
How the Minnesota Doctor Is
Faring on His Air Diet.
Thirteen Days Without Food and
with Very Little Water.
The Doctor Affects to Believe that
the Crisis Is Now Passed,
And Declares that He Has No Longer q
Desire for Food.


Steps Off Briskly.
| Special Dtspntch to The Chicago Tribune.
| NEW YORK, July 10.-Dr. Tanner, the fast
ing-man Of Minnesota, continues to puzzle
the physicians by his persistence in living
without partaking of food, and is setting at
! defiance the theories of all the medical
schools. He'has not been detected in recelv-
ing any nouzishment and all the scientific
tests to which the doctors have subjected
him have failed to give color to any suspi-
| cion OF fraud. He is wonderful man ir
every respect, and the experiment to which
he has voluntarily subjected himself
now promises to contribute valuable
knowledge to the medical profession. Since
the Irregular" physicians began to take IN
interest in the case Every movement Of DE-.
Tanner has been minutely recorded, and
pathological and physiological observations
have been made by his watchers hourly.
At noon tomorrow this remarkable man
| will have subsidized thirteen days without
| partaklng of food, and eleven days without
| drinking more than four ounces Of water.
! As Dr.. Gum said, this feat has astonished
| the medical fraternity most as much as the
| success of his experiment would. During
these thirteen days of fasting Dr.. Tanner has
| maintained
FULL POSSESSION OF HIS MENTAL FAcUn
| TIES,
| and acts and talks as nationally to-day as he
| did before the beginning Of his terrible battle
with the laws Of Nature In all recorded
| cases of absolute starvation the victim has
| become hopelesly insane or died long before
! the time which DR.. Tanner has now reached
in his fast, and This wonderful success so
| far has shaken the faith Of many physicians
in the theories of vitality so long held, and
converted into firm believers many men who
were skeptical when the Doctor proposed to
fast for forty days
| It IS only in the face that DR.. Tanner shows
evidence Of the ordeal of starvation he is
undergoing. His eyes seem to sink deeper
| into their sockets with every day, and, to a
/ close observer,
| THE CHANGE Is VERY APPARENT.
Friday the Doctors face was paid, and
looked like ghost Of his former self. To-
| day roseate hue overspread his features,
| and his face bore the appearance Of perfect
health. This change is accounted for by the
doctors on different theories, some, like
Prof. Ward, holding that the return
| Of color to the face is favor
able. symptom, and indicates that
1ar rosrard tha Toseate tint "a due to tl,a
satt,ng in IT fever and Indicating the beein-
,;nn ~ ~ a,J n Cr;-vo1d oara = theory
| 5 80 e. ~ , .-.t;o, prof wor,, .,-e hos ~
eo;ant;sr hsea +hat tha chanpe in Dr Tan.
.,as,a faao f~a1, a.+ra-,,e 4a1araee +o roeaata
hna ia dna IN tho f,ct that all the white q,
x,.o+o- Ida, h1ood.cornnecta. have nasspd
t e.a-- 49, hodn o,,5 III +h,+ rano.;na ~ tho
hlsaa w. :. +to+ no~+ ~ -
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n,, - .,s;.,.. ~ -. ,a,- ~ so1a s,,s+ar,nr,o
u.1 t..+an ~ ~ 1;a 1,;+,l ~. s1a dra1v.
~ 49, 49, .,.nH ~ 1870 1araa,v 5o11 hv dav a.
| ~ e,s, h,oo<, 49,, he f,ot,,rod without
Nv ne" o.oou e..l ss ~ -" n e,,. ~ ~ fro1.
tne asenes ~ iou' sho rptne,,,: ma w.
tnts eoolec 80 n;..;. {; ,. 1o,; - 10 s,,->
oh!s ,aao 70 - nt,.,,, ;s s,,ffc;ont n
ply W. 80. - ~ re nr ratnar,s a~nari
sost<.iu ille 4ol.s a'45s' 49, ,a.,;'1ar,,on+ ~
lilelle W. SUGGEST ~ rro;nd 49, HIN IF rot
t1e neale.4 4ssn h,1 WY =; a.hansta4, rho fast.
tne nonen1 .m1 o4oo1 - = sho,, ,n., ,nnst
eai,aasa g. ,a@a49 Fro'a "a't sheor b a~hausfion
collapse IRON sheer e4haustton:
In spite OF tne Doctors ploteseA1o;s nnE .a"r ~
ne sunels notllIis ~" .o'n - t1a *Teote.; ~
munger anu mat MS eses Me slmp} ~, toa1;e,-
ns sisep4ssn EEL ~ ] unarrng ;ndex of terri-
BILE mental, if not physical, agony. ~. ian-
ner. saws the crisis in his long fast has
1oeeed and that snccess now depends only
pas1eu, &C. - hjs vii tn hold in check the
| consumption OF his body. lie insists 1nat t,e
iected' and that he has
~ 1o~nrr A Desire TO EAT or DRINK.
He claims ne "oalo Have le.'cnee ta,s eolr
| diti0n earlier In his Struggle DnI 1or tne I'LL