The edge of a barrel fell on her ankle and partly separated it, the dust and mortar effectually stopping the hemorrhage.

The foot dropped off and the wound healed without medical assistance, the girl making a complete recovery.

There is an account taken from a document in the Vatican of a man living in 1306, in the reign of Pope Clement V, who fasted for two years.

McNaughton mentions Rubin Kelsey, a medical student afflicted with melancholia, who voluntarily fasted for fifty-three days, drinking copiously and greedily of water.

For the first six weeks he walked about, and was strong to the day of his death.
Hammond has proved many of the reports of "fasting girls" to have been untrustworthy.