George Tucker, from J.
A.Stuart, of a man who, after receiving no benefit from a year's treatment for hemiplegia, resolved to starve himself to death.

He totally abstained from food for sixty days, living on water and chewing apples, but spitting out the pulp; at the expiration of this time he died.

Eccles relates the history of a beautiful young woman of sixteen, who upon the death of a most indulgent father refused food for thirty-four days, and soon afterward for fifty-four days, losing all her senses but that of touch.
There is an account of a French adventurer, the Chevalier de Saint-Lubin, who had a loathing for food and abstained from every kind of meat and drink for fifty-eight days.

Saint-Sauver, at that time Lieutenant of the Bastille, put a close watch on this man and certified to the verity of the fast.

The European Magazine in 1783 contained an account of the Calabria earthquake, at which time a girl of eighteen was buried under ruins for six days.