Polyphagia denotes a condition in which excessive amounts of food have to be taken in order to satisfy the feeling of hunger. Polyphagia is met with in the same conditions as bulimia, and especially in the following disorders: Cancer of the pancreas or spleen, fistulous opening of the gall bladder, diabetes, and some tumors of the brain. But polyphagia may also be observed as a primary affection in neurotic persons. Like bulimia, polyphagia either appears in the form of attacks of short duration or may exist as a chronic trouble. The amount of nourishment which may be devoured by the patient during such an attack of polyphagia is sometimes enormous. Thus Rosenthal reports the case of a woman, twenty-eight years old, who devoured at one meal an entire large fried goose and a big portion of bread. Bouveret1 mentions a case reported by Percy: The patient, Tarareby name, when seventeen years old could partake of one hundred pounds of meat in twenty-four hours.