DISTINGUISHED GLUTTONS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1339, 29 March 1883, Page 2

DISTINGUISHED GLUTTONS.

1 .The Emperor Clodius Albiuns often ate above a bushel of ,apples at' once, and. ; and for. his • breakfast would ' swallow' twenty pounds of grapes, ten melons, four hundred oysters, a hutidrod peaohes; and.five hundred figs. In the time of Charles I, a barrister named Mallet Bwnllowed a dinner provided for thirty .meli. r -Fuller mentions. : one Nicholas i Wood, .a man belonging to Harrison ia Kent, who ale, at one time, a whole sheopj raw, at another-thirty dozen pigeons. For his hinner, he onoe ate eighty-four rabbits; for freakfast eighteen yards of blaok pudding, Onco he ato a whole ; hog at.a sitting, and finished it off by three pecks of damsons. Dr Morton, in the " Philosophical Transaotionsi" for 1745, vol 43, relates the case of a boy who swallowed, in six successive days, 384lbs2ozs of provisions, bread, meat, beer, &c., or 64lbs a day on an avarago, : Dr Burrows, in another volume, 22cd,; gives the cbbb of a patient who was effected by worms, and for several days together ate a leg of mutton at a meal. But one of the most remarkable examples that of a man called T&rara, who; died , about; the. year 1300,. aged.! wenty six. When only seventeen years old, he could eat, in twenty-fijur hours a quarter of a. bullock, weighing 1001b, ~ which was his own weight. He could eat serpents, snakes, cats, and other animals, and in a; few minutes finished off " the dinners prepared for fifteen German laborers. The ease as related by M, Percy, is rather sickening in its details, ltpiay be said that the above cases sre not • genuine /gluttony, but depraved appe!it'e; : in-reality, gluttony is nothing else, just at dipsomania or excessive drink' in® is another form of the same.