Throughout her fast she had periodic convulsions, and voided no urine or feces for twelve months before her death.

There was a middle-aged woman in England in 1860 who for two years lived on opium, gin, and water.

Her chief symptoms were almost daily sickness and epileptic fits three times a week.

She was absolutely constipated, and at her death her abdomen was so distended as to present the appearance of ascites.

After death, the distention of the abdomen was found to be due to a coating of fat, four inches thick, in the parietes.