Throughout a long life he continued his habit, sometimes drinking a gallon at one draught; he never used spirits.

There are three cases of polydipsia reported from London in 1792.
Field describes a boy with bilious remittent fever who would drink until his stomach was completely distended and then call for more.
Emesis was followed by cries for more water.

Becoming frantic, he would jump from his bed and struggle for the water bucket; failing in this, he ran to the kitchen and drank soapsuds, dish-water, and any other liquid he could find.

He had swallowed a mass of mackerel which he had not properly masticated, a fact proved later by ejection of the whole mass.

There is a case on record a in which there was intolerable thirst after retiring, lasting for a year.