He had found some salt, of which he ate two handfuls, and he had in his pocket a small flask, empty.

Into this flask he voided his urine, and afterward drank it.

Until the second day he was intensely hungry, but after that time was consumed by a burning thirst; he shouted four or five hours every day, hoping that he might be heard.

After this he became insensible and remembered nothing until he awakened in the hospital where, under careful treatment, he finally recovered.
Fodere mentions some workmen who were buried alive fourteen days in a cold, damp cavern under a ruin, and yet all lived.

There is a modern instance of a person being buried thirty-two days beneath snow, without food.