The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-25
GRIT AGAINST GRUB.

0RJV AGAINST GRUB.
The Former Wins Noteworthy Battle
Against the Pangs of Hunger-Succi, the
italian, Completes His Self Imposed Fast
New YORK, Dec. 22.-Signor Succi,
the italian faster, who began fast OF
forty-five days on Nov. at $40, ended
his task at $3.50 Saturday night. The
little bundle of nerves, sinews and mus.
cles has accomplished what no one else
ever did or ever attempted. Other
fasters have gone forty days with
out food, but they were so weak
that they could not sit up DR.. Tanner
could not sit up after the tenth day, and
could not write his name after the fif-
teenth day, but Succi has scorned the
idea of weakening all throuoi tho /; cary
weeks. On his fifteenth day he rode
seven miles on horseback and has
exercised every day since. The
doctors took the last examination
at 8 o'clock, the result of which
is as follows: Weight, 1919; on Novem,
Der S at $40, 1474; total loss of Az
pounds, or less than a pound day,
temperature, 9S.2; pulse, 81; respiration,
49,; general condition, weak; tongue,
clear, moist and steady. The bulletin
was signed by the thirteen physicians
who have watched during the
fast. The worst attack of gastric
trouble that he had during his fast
occurred at o'clock Saturday, during
which his pain was SO acute that it was
feared that he would collapse, but his
indomitable will power carried
him successfully through. From
4 o'clock until he took his first
cup of cocoa, at 500, his pain con.
tinued to be more or less acute.
1t was evident in many ways; by the
distortions of his face, which was
terribly shrunlzen; by his frequent
change of position on the lounge upon
which he was reclining; by the nervous
twitching of his wasted hands; by the
restless glare of his deep, sunker
eyes, and in various other ways
When the cocoa was prepared
shortly after 8 o'clock, Succ
got off the lounge and staggered to the
table where the nouirshing diet was
placed. The spectacle he presented
was truly pitiable. He looked like a
skeleton automaton, and when he
smiled it was simply CHASTITY. When hi
slipped the cocoa there was burst O.
applause from the spectators.
During the forty five days of his fas
Succi drank 29l ounces of Croton water
100 ounces of mineral water, and ate g.
ounces. of ice. Besides this he tool
710 drops Of his elixir, which he aver
contained only IL grains of opium. II,
only took the elixir during thirty
days of the fast, as he used more of i
during the first three and last four DAYS
[Succi has undergone the ordeal OF goins
without food longer and more frequently thar
any other man. HIS first fast was in Italy
dozen years ago. when he esSaycd and carried
out fast of thirty days. This feat in lant
where eating is the principal industry a
once made him famous, and t,
satisfy doubters he tasted thirty.flve DAYS
Thirty-tive times after that he showed to the
people of Europe that he could do without fooC
as easily as they could draw breath Ii
April of last year he appeared in Lon
don and created a sensation by proposing t.
fast for forty days. He began this fas
on St. Patrick's day and carried it out sue
cessfully. On the day that he ended the un
meal. He lost thirty-fou pounds in that fast
but regained it in two weeks He made S, O0s
in that under' liking, or about g., 500 more tina,
he has cleared in New York.
Other fasters have preceded Succi in thi
country In 1873 Miss Mollie Fame her. o
Brooklyn, attracted the attention of med
ical men and scientists by going with
out food for fifty days at least sh
said she did - but when DR.. Harmon.
offered to give her $1,000 if she woul,
abstain for one month under Surveillance
she declined the offer. Dr.. Tanner, who wa
then practicng physician in small Obi
town, saw DR.. Hanmonds offer to tn
Fancher woman and offered to bet that h
could abstain from food for perio,
of forty days. The wager was mad
and in February, 1880, DR.. Tanner be
gan to do without food in Claren
don Hall in this city. A committee of ply
sicians who watched him d >clared that Tanne
had partaken of nothing but water in the speci
fled time. In the presence Of 1900 peopl,
he broke his fast, watermelon beng hi:
first meal. Tanner refused to undertake tn,
feat second time and has never tried it, O
recent years the most famous fasters hav,
been 1.-The Attica Sleeper and Mrs. Wuchter
the Allentown Pa.) paralytic, whose friend.
say she went without food for 1O1 days.1