ANOTHER , FASTER.

Kumara Times, Issue 1405, 2 April 1881, Page 2

ANOTHER , FASTER.

An extraordinary fast is thus reported by the New York World Martha Terhune, spinster, 59 years old * was buried from her house in the queer old-fashioned Hamlet of Lodi, New JeMey, recently, having died of the effects of a fast which her friends say lasted eleven weeks. On September Bth last Mrs Gertrude Terhune, her. motherj was stricken with paralysis for a third time. Miss Martha was then in good bealchj but Was terribly shocked by the occurrence, and took to her bed, . and thereafter 1 refused all nourishment, though she did accept Under 1 cion a very trifling amount of food dur- J * ing the first four weeks. After afeVv. days she left her bed and- went about ' the house part of the time, but never fully recovered. The shock occurred ■ precisely eleven weeks before her death; Four weeks afterwards she tasted, as 1 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 medL cine. Mrs Stephen Massey, a neighbour, who is an amateur homoeopathic physician, did induce the patient to take a few of her pills to allay a fever brought on by the long continued fast.