AN AMERICAN FASTING WOMAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3236, 14 November 1881, Page 4

AN AMERICAN FASTING WOMAN.

1 Silverpon,* Uie 'Frisco correspondent of the Now Zealand Herald, says in a recent letter to that journal .—Surely the age of miracles is now upon Uβ. One would thint so at least by observing the number of fasting men and women in America, and it is so inexpensive wifchal that I really wish I could find out the plan. From Chicago, a lady has just arrived who brings a wonderfnl story of a women who went to a dentist to have a curious tooth extracted. It was a terrible tooth, and caused fearful pain in the drawing; in fact gave such s shock to the nervous system of the lady, who, however, was robust, weighing 1801bs that ehe was instantly seized with severe pains all over the body, particularly in the bowels ; nausea and vomiting setting in, and continuing up to this day. Not a particle of food has past the sufferer's lips, and she is kept alive by baths of beef tea and milk. For eight months has this method of keeping her alive been resorted to. In weight the patient has lost lOOlbs, but her face presents a pleasing appearance, nor is it materially changed. A raging thirst oppresses her, and yet she cannot drink, but both hunger and thirst are appeased by outward applications. The nerves are so over wrought that sleep only comes to the poor woman two hours in each twenty-four, and that when she is wellnigh exhausted. She retches constantly, and at last her throat has become affected, and she can scarcely speak above a whisper —all this from drawing a tooth.