delirious throughout this fast and slept daily seven or eight hours. As
a rule, she drank about a wineglassful of water each day and her urine
was scanty and almost of the consistency of her feces. There is a
remarkable case of a girl of seventeen who, suffering with typhoid
fever associated with engorgement of the abdomen and suppression of the
functions of assimilation, fasted for four months without visible
diminution in weight. Pierce reports the history of a woman of
twenty-six who fasted for three months and made an excellent recovery.

Grant describes the "Market Harborough fasting-girl," a maiden of
nineteen, who abstained from food from April, 1874, until December,
1877, although continually using morphia. Throughout her fast she had
periodic convulsions, and voided no urine or feces for twelve months
before her death. There was a middle-aged woman in England in 1860 who
for two years lived on opium, gin, and water. Her chief symptoms were
almost daily sickness and epileptic fits three times a week. She was
absolutely constipated, and at her death her abdomen was so distended
as to present the appearance of ascites. After death, the distention of
the abdomen was found to be due to a coating of fat, four inches thick,
in the parietes. There was no obstruction to the intestinal canal and
no fecal or other accumulation within it. Christina Marshall, a girl
of fourteen, went fifteen and one-half months without taking solid
nourishment. She slept very little, seldom spoke, but occasionally
asked the time of day. She took sweets and water, with beef tea at
intervals, and occasionally a small piece of orange. She died April 18,
1882, after having been confined to her bed for a long while.

King, a surgeon, U.S.A., gives an account of the deprivation of a squad
of cavalry numbering 40. While scouting for Indians on the plains they
went for eighty-six hours without water; when relieved their mouths and
throats were so dry that even brown sugar would not dissolve on their
tongues. Many were delirious, and all had drawn fresh blood from their
horses. Despite repeated vomiting, some drank their own urine. They
were nearly all suffering from overpowering dyspnea, two were dead, and
two were missing. The suffering was increased by the acrid atmosphere
of the dry plains; the slightest exercise in this climate provoked a
thirst. MacLoughlin, the surgeon in charge of the S.S. City of Chester,
speaks of a young stowaway found