DISTINGUISHED GLUTTONS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4433, 20 March 1883, Page 4

DISTINGUISHED GLUTTONS.

The Emperor Clodius Albinus often ste above a bushel of apples at once, and for his breakfast would swallow twenty pounds '- of grapes, ten melons, four hundred . oysters, a hundred peaches, and five hundred figs, la the time of Charles I, a : , barrister named Mullet swallowed a dinner provided for thirty men. Fuller men^ tions one Nicholas Wood, a man belong ing to .Harrison in Kent, who ate, at one time, a whole sheep, raw, at another thirty dozen pigeons. Fpr his dinner, he ODce ate eighty-four rabbits ; for break* fast eighteen yards of black pudding. Once be ate a whole hog at a sitting, and finished it off by three pecks of := damsons. ■- Dr Morton, in the " Philo> sophical Transactions," for 1745, vol. 43, relates the case of a boy who swallowed, in 6 successive days, 384 lbs 2os»-of .provisions, bread, meat, beer, &e.Vor 64ibs. a day on an average. Dr Burrows, in another volume, 22nd, gives the case of a patient who was affected , by worms, and for several days together ate a leg of "mutton at a meal. But one of the most remarkable examples is that r of.,a man called Tarare, who died ;at Versailles about the year 1800, aged twenty - six. When only seventeen years old; ihe could eat, in twenty four hours, a quarter of a bullock, weighing 1001b, which was his own weight. He would eat serpents, snakes, cats, and other animals, and in a few minutes finished, off the dinners prepared for fifteen German laborers. The case as related by M. Percy, is rather sickening in its details. It may be said that the above eases are not genuine gluttony; but depraved appetite; in reality, gluttony is nothing else, just as . dipsomania or exces sive drinking is another form of the same.'