Plot gives the case of a woman who would gnaw and eat all the linen off her bed.

Hufeland's Journal records the history of a case of a woman of thirty-two, who had been married ten years, who acquired a strong taste for charcoal, and was ravenous for it.

It seemed to cheer her and to cure a supposed dyspepsia.

She devoured enormous quantities, preferring hard-wood charcoal.

Bruyesinus speaks of a woman who had a most perverted appetite for her own milk, and constantly drained her breasts; Krafft-Ebing cites a similar case.