New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-18
CAN EAT TWENTY MEALS A DAY.
Dr.. Bull Shows Medical Students Man with
Sac in His Throat, It Is Said

Dr.. william T. Bull according 20 4 report which
has not yet been officially confirmed exhibited be-
fore class of about three hundred students az the
College o. Physicians and Surgeons on Tuesday a
man who Is described as a gastrononic phenom-
enon because he IS able eat n he can get them.
twenty hearty meals day. To give the students
an idea 10 his ability eater tho Is
said 10 have devoured before them piles after piles
81 roasted chicken. besides almost innurnerable
loaves OF bread. while the students reclaimed IN
chorus; Just think q his poor wife. Might just
well try 20 nh the dumbWaitar"
Not one speck OF solid food nor one drop OF
liquids which the man takes AT his meals ever en-
tiers his stomach. according 10 the report because
he has 'stenosis Of the usouhap1ls with AZ ESQ
phageal dvorticulum." due TO swallowing some
acid year and half ago. After speaking OF the
man as q gastr0Eonlc phenomenon. the report says
that the man when ne really has his non-exhibtlon
meals takes liquids administered through a gastric
nstula IN the stomach
A Tribune reporter tried last night 90 get a look
at this to how the man can get away with
50 much edibes and H1Eids IN a day. bat he did
not find him. From the description furnished OF
the abilities of the man. this phenomenon" Is in
no way IN harmony with gastroromy, the art and
science % good eating. lie may have good nrpe-
tile. bat ne cannot appoase 81 81 the ordinary way
and, therefore, he cannot enjoy even cne good
square meal. His oesophagls IS 50 contracted that
he cannot swallow solid or liquid food. As 10 the
"gs1phagcal dyertlculum." that accounts for his
ability 20 make his food disappear after lie appar-
emily begins to eat g. In other words. he has a
blind. sac-like muscular tube in his throat all due
10 the contraction OF his throat. He keeps on stuff
hnE the food into his throat and every once In a
while he disappears behind screen and then gpits
out his food OWNS 20 The use OF a screen and
ne uina sac-like tube IN his throat, he can make
a person imagine thai he can eat twenty apples at
one siltlng. where an ordinary person could only
eat iEe.
The man Is apparently only a 'sloieht OF hand 10
mouth performer. and Is in the same clase p
ne man with the steam whistle voice OF the in ga
rubber boy. who was exhibit d some years ago At
NC College or Physicians and Surgeons They were
freaks q the highest order. They usually trav-
sl4ed toEether, and one night physician who ex-
hiLli eo them left them sitting side by side on
pital nus
Richard Brosseau was then night clerk OF the
LGsPilal- lie was making out his night reports
Mhel ne man with the steam whistle voice due 10
oeIect ot his vocal chords. e, so Of the throttle
on the steam whistle Brosseau thought IL was fbe
whlste q IRE engine. and he Jumped IN from his
oesh ana ran 70 the entrsnce 20 here We the
IRE. Inc india rubber boy made one az MS living
sofneIs:luts IN The air. and the steam 1.hsfIInC
man whistled again in his best voice this time ana
/ ne kept ~ UP Tor some minutes So ala the how
keep Jumping up ard down outil he fell exhausted
~ the Ieet OF lie man with the wonderful whistle
| When tho man blew his last whistle Broseeau and
a. large lumber ot attendants were standing ,ver
him. ara the freaks were quickly hustled out OF
the hospital. after the physician who introduced
| them had been severely reprimanded