Ann Moore, the famous fasting woman of Tutbury, pretended to have lived for eight years entirely without food. A Watch Committee was appointed, which detected the fraud in a very ingenious manner. The bed and bedding, with the woman in it, were placed on a delicate weighing machine, which resulted in the inevitable exposure. At the expiration of the ninth day of this strict watching, being warned that she was sinking, she acknowledged her imposture, and admitted - which is an important fact - that, so long as the watch upon her was but imperfect, her daughter had contrived, when washing her face, to feed her every morning by using towels made very wet with gravy, milk, and other nourishing fluids, and had also while kissing her contrived to convey small portions of solid food from mouth to mouth. Guillaume Granet, a prisoner at Toulouse, resorted to starvation to avoid punishment. For the first seven days the symptoms were not very remarkable. After this period he was compelled, co drink water to relieve his raging thirst, and after lingering on in terrible agony he died in convulsions on the fifty-eighth day. The case is reported by Van Swieten. There is no doubt as to its truth.

Viterbi, a Corsican, condemned to death for the assassination of Frediani, resolved to starve himself to death. He died on the twenty-first day. He, too, occasionally moistened his mouth with water. The medical details of his case, which are very horrible, will be found in Paris's "Medical Jurisprudence." Of accidental starvation, the most remarkable example is, perhaps, that reported by Dr. Sloane, of Ayr: "A man, some 65 years of age, of a spare habit of body, and uncommonly vigorous for his time of life, was accidentally incarcerated in a coal mine for twenty-three days, during the first few of which he had access to water strongly impregnated with iron. He then became unable to move, and had unfortunately fallen some distance from the water. In this instance, Dr. Sloane thinks that an impure atmosphere, by lowering the vital powers, might tend to slightly prolong life under circumstances of privation. The unhappy man died on the third day after his removal." In 1866 Captain Casey, of the James Lowden, passed twenty-eight days in an open boat without food or water. He contrived however, to drink as much rain as he could collect, and it is, possiole, of course, that he may have chewed fragments of his clothes. Thus, then, so far as ascertained cases go, life has actually, on one occasion, been sustained for fifty-eight days without food, but not without water. Some time in 1881 or 1832 a son of Deacon Kelsey, of Fairfield, N. Y., abstained from all manner of food, but drank often of pure cold water and washed freely with it. He gradually wasted away to a mere skeleton, but did not die till the end of fifty-six days. Dr McNaughton, a professor in Fairfield Medical College, wrote an account of this case at the time, the faster having been a student of the college.