Gull saw her in April, when she was much emaciated; she persisted in walking through the streets, where she was the object of remark of passers-by.

At this time her height was five feet four inches, her weight 63 pounds, her temperature 97 degrees F., her pulse 46, and her respiration from 12 to 14.

She had a persistent wish to be moving all the time, despite her emaciation and the exhaustion of the nutritive functions.
There is another class of abstainers from food exemplified in the exhibitionists who either for notoriety or for wages demonstrate their ability to forego eating, and sometimes drinking, for long periods.
Some have been clever frauds, who by means of artifices have carried on skilful deceptions; others have been really interesting physiologic anomalies.
Older Instances .-- Democritus in 323 B.C.is said to have lived forty days by simply smelling honey and hot bread.

Hippocrates remarks that most of those who endeavored to abstain five days died within that period, and even if they were prevailed upon to eat and drink before the termination of their fast they still perished.

There is a possibility that some of these cases of Hippocrates were instances of pyloric carcinoma or of stenosis of the pylorus.