A woman at Carsen, Nevada, is said to have undertaken to refrain for 40 days. The report rum? as follows :—" She began at 9 in the morning, and at 10J her pulse was so feeble from exhaustion that the physicians feared she would die by noon. At 11 h«r heart beat but 26 a minute, and her respirations were hardly noticeable. Her friends now urged her to discontinue her terrible task, and told her some gossip about a neighbor. On hearing it Bhe immediately rushed from the house, ~r and, going across the street, met a lady - friend, and talked to half past six last night, and is now fully restored,"
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 460, 17 December 1880, Page 2
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111Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 460, 17 December 1880, Page 2
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