This girl is said to have passed three entire years, from eleven to fourteen, without taking any kind of aliment.

In the "Harleian Miscellanies" is a copy of a paper humbly offered to the Royal Society by John Reynolds, containing a discourse upon prodigious abstinence, occasioned by the twelve months' fasting of a woman named Martha Taylor, a damsel of Derbyshire.

Plot gives a great variety of curious anecdotes of prolonged abstinence.

Ames refers to "the true and admirable history of the maiden of Confolens," mentioned by Haller.

In the Annual Register, vol.i., is an account of three persons who were buried five weeks in the snow; and in the same journal, in 1762, is the history of a girl who is said to have subsisted nearly four years on water.