Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-10
UNSUITABLE HUNGER
TRACED TO JOSEPH
London Physician Also Tells
of Boy Eating One Hundred
Pounds of Raw Meat.
A ONE DAY APPETITE
vegetarians Most Difficult TO Treat,
Leading a Brief but Glorious
Existence" He Asserts.
Especial DIspatch.)
LONDON, Saturday.


~ II. w. SALTAU FENWICK kept nj
laudience alternately shaking witt
laughter and shvering with some
thing that was pretty nearly akin tc
horror in a lecture he delivered at the
Institute of Hygiene on "Eccentricitica
OF Diet"
One of his most amusing statements
concerned patients he had known who
suffered from the disease OF Unsuitable
hunger" 1.-THE earliest notice of IT, he
said, rs to be found In the Book or
Genesis. where Pharaoh consulted Joseph
about his dream of the fat and lean
kline. in which the lean kline de-
yourcd tho fat ones without appearing
an atom the better for IT. That exactly
describes the case OF the insatihble
hunger victims. They will eat almost
anything, yet are always hungry, lean
and Ill favored"
Then he went on TO give instances he
had known A girl OF eight, he said. who
ordinarily at table ate as much as the
other seven members OF the family put TO-
getller one day escaped to the Kitchen
and there put away raw goldfish. TWO
pounds OF tallow candles and several
pounds of butter. a boy victim, FOR pnr-
poses of medical observation, was allowed
twcnty-foiIr hours freedom. He devonred
100 rounds of raw meat in the time. besides
inrumerablc other things. a third patient.
a little girl. was placed in walled gar
den OF shrubs, so tired were her parents
of her insa,iab bic appetite. But that did
not stop her eating. for later they discov-
cred that she had eaten UP all the leaves.
all The small twigs. and had started gnaw-
ing IL bough. Another STARTER was the
case OF 4 boy who, on being shut up IN
an empty room. was discovered afterward
to have eaten all his clothes.
People like that" said the lecturer, are
bottomlcss pits. You can throw all your
goods ard chnttcls into them"
Talking about what he called the lido
syncrasy of diet" he told of people who
plastered their food with salt and never
sat down to meal without cmptying the
saltcellar. He knew of n girl who never
left the table without emptying every salt
cellar she could lay hands on and who
would increase ten pounds IN weight in
twenty-fonr hours. She was frequently
unable to wcar dress that Ind been quite
loose for her the previous day,
Then he told OF patients whose craze was
to eat paper. these being mostly children.
who would scrnpe tho paper OFF the walls
TO satisfy their strange craving, the re-
suit being the formation OF sodden paper
balls In the stomach. which sometimes
proved fatal There were girls who died
or got into serious trouble through eating
wisps OF their own hair; dressmakers, mat
and mattress makers who had strange
taste for cotton, string or anything at all
that they might DO wording with. and
varnishers and polishers who drank them
selves to death with their vnrnish and
polish.
Finally he had go at tho vGgetarians-
the most difficult people In the world to
treat" DR.. Fcnwicls declared. Prove to
them that vcgetarinnism is making tliem
shocldngly thin and they will say:-'Oh.
but that's my wary nature!' They arc al
bays cold: they never live to great age.
They lead short but glorious existence.
Many of them die of self-innicteh vegc-
table dyspepsia"