What is the biggest meal ever taken by one person? In the Transactions of the Boyal Society, mention is made of a ten-year-old boy .who ate'373lb of foocbin'' six days; while another, 1 suffering from acute hunger, consumed 3841b of food in the same period, and then started to gnaw his own flesh! A doctor records seeing a Norfolk farm labourer eat a whole leg of mutton at one sitting. A woman patient in St. Bartholomew's Hospital ate threequartern loaves, 31b of meat,, and several ppunds of potatoes every day for three weeks. The case is recorded of a child aged three who drank two pails daily and seemed nono the {Glassblowers; have been known |Mgink f pints, of water a day. A physician had a patient who drank fifty pints of red To come nearer homo, v ßb>nd9: once ate a full milkfitting. 1 "
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18228, 12 November 1924, Page 14
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145Page 14 Advertisements Column 1 Press, Volume LX, Issue 18228, 12 November 1924, Page 14
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