Two days after her recovery, without any known cause, she refused all food and continued to do so for thirty-three days, when she died.

She was delirious throughout this fast and slept daily seven or eight hours.

As a rule, she drank about a wineglassful of water each day and her urine was scanty and almost of the consistency of her feces.

There is a remarkable case of a girl of seventeen who, suffering with typhoid fever associated with engorgement of the abdomen and suppression of the functions of assimilation, fasted for four months without visible diminution in weight.

Pierce reports the history of a woman of twenty-six who fasted for three months and made an excellent recovery.
Grant describes the "Market Harborough fasting-girl," a maiden of nineteen, who abstained from food from April, 1874, until December, 1877, although continually using morphia.