A LONG FAST.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2211, 28 March 1881, Page 3

A LONG FAST.

An extraordinary fast is thus reported in a recent issue the " New York World— Martha Torhnne, spinster, fifty-nine years old, was buried from her house in the queer old-fashioned Hamlet of Lodi, New Jersey, recently, having died of the effects of a fast which her friends say lasted eleven weeks. On September Bth last Mrs Gertrude Terhune, her mother, was stricken with paralysis for the third time. Mies Martha was then in good health, but was terribly shocked by the occurrence, and took to her bed, and thereafter refused all nourishment, though she did accept, under semi-coercion, a very trifling amountof food during the first four weeks. After a few daye she left her bed and went about the house part of the time, but never fully recovered. The shack occurred precisely eleven weeks before her death. Tour weeks afterwards she tasted, as her relatives avouch, the last food that passed her lips, and the remaining seven weeks, or forty-nine days, she fasted absolutely. Dr. John Soper was called in, but she would have no medicine. Mrs Stephen Massey, a neighbor, who is an amateur homoeopathic physician, did induce the patient to take a few of her pills to allay the fever brought on by the long-continued fast.