by the stevedores in an insensible
condition after a voyage of eleven days. The man was brought on deck
and revived sufficiently to be sent to St. Vincent's Hospital, N.Y.,
about one and one-half hours after discovery, in an extremely
emaciated, cold, and nearly pulseless condition. He gave his name as
John Donnelly, aged twenty, of Dumbarton, Scotland. On the whole voyage
he had nothing to eat or drink. He had found some salt, of which he ate
two handfuls, and he had in his pocket a small flask, empty. Into this
flask he voided his urine, and afterward drank it. Until the second day
he was intensely hungry, but after that time was consumed by a burning
thirst; he shouted four or five hours every day, hoping that he might
be heard. After this he became insensible and remembered nothing until
he awakened in the hospital where, under careful treatment, he finally
recovered.

Fodere mentions some workmen who were buried alive fourteen days in a
cold, damp cavern under a ruin, and yet all lived. There is a modern
instance of a person being buried thirty-two days beneath snow, without
food. The Lancet notes that a pig fell off Dover Cliff and was picked
up alive one hundred and sixty days after, having been partially
imbedded in debris. It was so surrounded by the chalk of the cliff that
little motion was possible, and warmth was secured by the enclosing
material. This animal had therefore lived on its own fat during the
entire period.

Among the modern exhibitionists may be mentioned Merlatti, the fasting
Italian, and Succi, both of whom fasted in Paris; Alexander Jacques,
who fasted fifty days; and the American, Dr. Tanner, who achieved great
notoriety by a fast of forty days, during which time he exhibited
progressive emaciation. Merlatti, who fasted in Paris in 1886, lost 22
pounds in a month; during his fast of fifty days he drank only pure
filtered water. Prior to the fast his farewell meal consisted of a
whole fat goose, including the bones, two pounds of roast beef,
vegetables for two, and a plate of walnuts, the latter eaten whole.
Alexander Jacques fasted fifty days and Succi fasted forty days.
Jacques lost 28 pounds and 4 ounces (from 142 pounds, 8 ounces to 114
pounds, 4 ounces), while Succi's loss was 34 pounds and 3 ounces.
Succi diminished in height from 65 3/4 to 64 1/2 inches, while Jacques
increased from 64 1/2 to 65 1/2 inches. Jacques smoked cigarettes
incessantly, using 700 in the fifty days, althoug