A WONDERFUL POTION.
A man named Sued, who lives at Forli in the Romagna, Italy, asserts that he has discovered, in the course of his travels through a great part of Afrioa ; a sort of liquor, 1 xtractsd from various herbs, which has the effect of “mummifying" the bi'dy, to to speak, and rendering it insensible to any kind of want, such as hunger or thirst ; while it will also admit of a person taking any poison however violent, without feeling any ill eff-cts A Committee of the inhabitants of Forli has been formed, at his request, to watch the experiments which he is making upon himself, and savaia! doctors who have examined him have stated that the cate is a very curious one, aud that they cannot detect any fraud. Succi takes n.xhing but four glasses of water a day, and says that he feels very well. At the request of Professor Peruzzi, of the Bologna Academy of the Medicine, he started for that city, where he prof omd to go through another course of fasting and taking poison
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1340, 13 September 1886, Page 3
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180A WONDERFUL POTION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1340, 13 September 1886, Page 3
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