There is an instance on record of a case of canine appetite in which nearly 400 pounds of solid and fluid elements were taken into the body in six days and again ejected.

A recovery was effected by giving very concentrated food, frequently repeated in small quantities.

Mason mentions a woman in St.Bartholomew's Hospital in London in the early part of this century who was wretched unless she was always eating.

Each day she consumed three quartern-loaves, three pounds of beef-steak, in addition to large quantities of vegetables, meal, etc., and water.

Smith describes a boy of fourteen who ate continuously fifteen hours out of the twenty-four, and who had eight bowel movements each day.