This same author has also collected cases of abstinence lasting eleven, twenty-two, and thirty years and cites Aristotle as an authority in substantiating his instances of fasting girls.
Wadd, the celebrated authority on corpulence, quotes Pennant in mentioning a woman in Rosshire who lived one and three-quarters years without meat or drink.

Granger had under observation a woman by the name of Ann Moore, fifty-eight years of age, who fasted for two years.
Fabricius Hildanus relates of Apollonia Schreiera that she lived three years without meat or drink.

He also tells of Eva Flegen, who began to fast in 1596, and from that time on for sixteen years, lived without meat or drink.

According to the Rev.Thos.Steill, Janet Young fasted sixteen years and partially prolonged her abstinence for fifty years.
The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, which contains a mention of the foregoing case, also describes the case of Janet Macleod, who fasted for four years, showing no signs of emaciation.

Benjamin Rush speaks of a case mentioned in a letter to St.