Mortimer mentions a boy of twelve who, while laboring under this affliction, in six days devoured food to the extent of 384 pounds and two ounces.

He constantly vomited, but his craving for food was so insatiable that if not satisfied he would devour the flesh off his own bones.

Martyn, Professor of Botany at Cambridge in the early part of the last century, tells of a boy ten years old whose appetite was enormous.

He consumed in one week 373 pounds of food and drink.

His urine and stools were voided in normal quantities, the excess being vomited.