He died of a purulent diarrhea, all his intestines and peritoneum being in a suppurating condition.
Fulton mentions a girl of six who exhibited a marked taste for feeding on slugs, beetles, cockroaches, spiders, and repulsive insects.

This child had been carefully brought up and was one of 13 children, none of whom displayed any similar depravity of appetite.

The child was of good disposition and slightly below the normal mental standard for her age.
At the age of fourteen her appetite became normal.
In the older writings many curious instances of abnormal appetite are seen.

Borellus speaks of individuals swallowing stones, horns, serpents, and toads.

Plater mentions snail-eating and eel-eating, two customs still extant.