He ate almost instantly a dinner that had been prepared for 15 vigorous workmen and drank the accompanying water and took their aggregate allowance of salt at the same time.

After this meal his abdomen was so swollen that it resembled a balloon.

He was seen by Courville, a surgeon-major in a military hospital, where he had swallowed a wooden box wrapped in plain white paper.

This he passed the next day with the paper intact.

The General-in-chief had seen him devour thirty pounds of raw liver and lungs.