The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-13
ruLsE AND TEMPERATuRE.


Lste tonight the faster expressed the Ut
mos, confidence that he would end his task
successfully. During the past few days he
has been passing off large quantities OF
phosphales, which, the regular physicians
say, shows that the brain tissue is being
rapidly worn out. AT midnight the Doc
tors pulse was higher than it has been pc
fore, being announced as at 100, while his
Temperature was 9G 7-10o. Still there was
no outward indications OF change. Dr.
Week. being asked what would be done
/ in case OF sudden collapse, said: 1--WE
don't intend to let him commit suicide
under our ewes. AS soon n he SHOWS
serious symptoms OF collapse we shaii
warn him oi his danger. II he refuses TO
take the necessary siimulants, then !, ior
one, shall be in favor OF forcing them down
him, lust as would force the kniic from q
man whom found trying to cut his throat.
II might be dangerous to attempt this on
man so weakened from long abstinence, but
| ii will be the only possible way to save his
| life IL he proves obstlnaely beDt on sell
destruction. or course II we can't get the
proper remedies down his throat he must
die, bot in that event | hardly think that
bis watchers can he held responsible. Two
gentlemen whom we had on our committee
retired from fear OF fatal termination"
Herald yes.erdayJ
TIE FIFTEENTH DAY.
DR.. A. S. Heath, president OF the Ameri-
can Institute Farmers Club, said TO the in
teryiewer: - will not utter word against
DR.. Tanner: he is insane on the Suflect or
fasting, and ! am sorry that my profession has
not raised It's voice against This crime OF per-
uniting man to die by starvation. IL Is
wrong done to humanity, an immoral eXhi-
bition, as tending to create craving for
cruel things. | was asked TO spend TWO
hours day as one OF TIE watchers, out
could not give such an exhibition my
countenapce. went down to see DR..
Tanner on Monday last, and found hIm
! living face down in the window, Win DIS
! head resting on his arm and hands, WIN
! flushed face. AS the certificates OF Inc pAy-
sicians said be had taken nothing but wa
ter. had TO conclude that the 1lu'hed lace
meant The fever OF starvation, although his
temperature did not indicate FEVER. STAR
yation is attended with fainfness, deDilltV,
paroXysms OF delirium, mania. iever, ana
finally stupor. a starved animal loses ~
per cent. OF its normal weight by the lime
il dies A man lived for tWenty-tDree uats
shut up in coal.mine with only niue uil-
clean water to drink but he lived only
Starvation means a gradual wasting OF all
the tissues and fluids of the body. The
weight OF DR.. Tanner from time to time will
nrettv nearly decide his fate-will tell when
he must either eat or die. | predict that he
will reach the crisis, and fail, on the nj.
teenth day-that on the fifteenth day OF
this cruel and unnecessary case OF stafVa'
, tion syncOpe and stupOr Will 80 alarm the
. dubious physiclans that they Will terminate
the experiment ere that day expires. "A
religious maniac lived for sixty days on
orange Juice; but DIR. Tanner is said to be
living on nothing. NJ. CbassatS eXpcri.
; ments showed that the average iengin OF
life in qradrupeds and birds under stafVa'
: lion was nine days, and that the maximum
is twenty and halt days; loss OF weight
4.1O. and al reduction OF temperature &c
7G 3Ol00 Fahrenheit death superveEfS.
repeat it, DR.. Tanners eXDerImcnt cannon
extend beyond the fifteenth day."
AUTHORITIES TO THE POINT.
Here DR.. Heath stepped to an alcoye an(
= drew from his library Draper's "Humal
r Physiology" and read: "Where high de
t yelopment has been attained, a. in man, eX
I perlence assures us that the same inevitable
o result awaits cessation Of respiration for
: few moments, an abstinence from water 10
Y a few hours, or from food for few days
V Turning to another page DR.. Heath read
b "a healthy man consumes 1,500 pound
e OF food and drink in year, ant
e about 800 pounds OF oxygen. TN
!, will give about ION ana q nan
n or more than twenty times the averag
C weight OF an adult man." Turning sti
e further DR.. Heath read again AZ I'd
e very outset OF our science we must disihls
|. tl,ot i1ye SIR l,nn6
NJ existence vary in different tribes. an
n that man is not to be compared WIN rowe
< forms. We must steadily keep in view IN
D. inter-connection Of ALA doctrine which
the guiding light Of modern physiology
d and which authorizes US to appeal to tn
le structure and function OF another"
II "This," DR.. Heath said, laying aside I'll
Is book, sis good authority for declaring thi
II the science OF medicine does not requu
II the sacrifice OF Il human being to settle
fy single principle of human physloIo@!
ne Hence say that DR.. Tanner and the oth'
be members OF my profession who are encou
lis aging this dangcrous--we ] may as we
o. say fltal-eXperiment are violating the law
N of physiology and Of God for no nece
sarv purpose, and | denOunce the stary
he ton OF DR.. Tanner as cruel, toftui IN
u and abominably immoral. Thee eXhil
lg tiops OF barbarous cruelty to man are pr
n- duc,iye of morbid appetite in the pub'l
be Already many young men have been rune
ut for life in the siX-day races for money ~
-. notorieiy. And now we are on the eve
W. introducing bull.f2hts; but fancy I'd
n Mfr. Henry Bergb will interfere"
ne "You have intmated your suspicion
~ DR.. Tanners sanity!
e. "Yes,' DR.. Heath replied, Dr. IahI'
ct is insane on the subject OF fasting"
Od [By Associated Press.l
ne NEW YoRK. July 12.-At midnight Il
vi night DIR. Tanner had completed thirte
Nss and one-baIf days OF his voluntary ias'.
% was then quietly sleeping. A few not
ue before his pulse was 9S. ntbe morning
ng had his picture taken, and In the aiterho
ns ne took stroll OF thirty-hve minutes
''e Union Square without assistance,
!" seemed quite strong. -. ,r.,r
AT . O'Clock this afternoon l,r: Iahi
". was sleeping quietly. The pDysicans
cs mort his condition good. de mas doz
p- nearly all day, and taken no liquid. lie
en- received a telegram from some person
ln Baltimore. challenging him 10 a. ias'
,ss match.
IN The New York Herald has specislwa
'h' over DR.. Tanocr.
Rev. Samuel Sparhlin, a Methodist mi
:. ter, died in Baltimore Saturday; aged eig
40. years. 3