At the age of twenty-two she married a cobbler, unaware of her propensity, who found that his earnings did not suffice to keep her in water alone, and he was compelled to melt ice and snow for her.

She drank four pailfuls a day, the price being 12 sous; water in the community was scarce and had to be bought.

This woman bore 11 children.

At the age of forty she appeared before a scientific commission and drank in their presence 14 quarts of water in ten hours and passed ten quarts of almost colorless urine.

Dickinson mentions that he has had patients in his own practice who drank their own urine.