An account of the extraordinary abstinence of Ann Moor, of Tutbury, Staffordshire, England : who has for more than three years, lived entirely without food ; giving the particulars of her life to the present time, an account of the investigation instituted on the occasion, and observations on the letters of some medical men who attended it.

Date:
1811
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Credit: An account of the extraordinary abstinence of Ann Moor, of Tutbury, Staffordshire, England : who has for more than three years, lived entirely without food ; giving the particulars of her life to the present time, an account of the investigation instituted on the occasion, and observations on the letters of some medical men who attended it. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *3 tity of liquid, fometimes omitting to take any £or two or three days together. Her evacuations by urine at this time were the fame as any person's in health. She once changed her common tea for onion tea, thinking it might perhaps agree better with her, but (he foon difcontinued it, and retook to the former. Her ftrength has gradually dccreafed, though her fpirits keep their ufual ftandard, and are fel- dom affected. She is particularly fufceptible of cold, and perfpiration is frequently obftructed from the flighted caufes. Her head and left .fide are never free from pain,fo that fke has no found deep night nor day. In this deplorable condition, without fcarce- ly a friend in the world, fhe continued, labour- ing under the greateft diftreffes ; fhe' had not even fufficient clothes to cover her bed, and dur- ing the winter of 1807 fhe had not the leaft fire to warm her room, which rr.uft be extremely cold, the fnow and rain beating through the tiles, &c. The conduct of feveral medical gentlemen in the neighbourhood, whofe opinions had com- plete fway over the minds of the inhabitant* of Tutbury, rendered it a ncceffary act of feif de- fence for her, to wifli for an investigation of the fact which die aiTerted. Molt of the medical o-entlemen alluded to, had no other reafon for their affections than the conclufions they imme- diately made on feeling her pulfe, which they all maintained u ere too ftrong and natural for a perfon in the fituation fhe pretended to be. livery idle tale was laid hold of, in order if pof-