An account of the extraordinary abstinence of Ann Moor, of Tutbury, Staffordshire, England : who has for more than three years, lived entirely without food ; giving the particulars of her life to the present time, an account of the investigation instituted on the occasion, and observations on the letters of some medical men who attended it.

Date:
1811
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Credit: An account of the extraordinary abstinence of Ann Moor, of Tutbury, Staffordshire, England : who has for more than three years, lived entirely without food ; giving the particulars of her life to the present time, an account of the investigation instituted on the occasion, and observations on the letters of some medical men who attended it. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Miss Kniflon, John Stoneslreet, William Yates, Miss E. Si- mons, Mr. Shipion, Mrs. Slalham, James Hall. Mary Taylor, Tms. Hamon, Peter Bawn, El zibeih Tipj), Emma Ford, Charles Allen. The following are exact copies of the two ftatements alluded to in page 11, under the lat- ter of which are placed a few occafional re- marks. To the Editors of the Medical and Physical Journal. Gentlemen, Though I have declined the practice of my profeflion, I fhall ever confider it my duty to promote its interefts, and to contribute the mite which Providence may put in my way for the good of fociety, and the advancement of fcience. I truft I am folely actuated by this principle in eliciting, through the medium of your liberal mifcellany, the opinions and theo- ries of my medical brethren, on the remarka- ble facts which I have been engaged to afcertain. There is now living in the village of Tutbury, in Staffordshire, a woman named Ann Moor, in whom nature appears to have eftablifhed a mere circulating recumbent life, without the ufual eflential of nutricious juices. It appear* from her affeverations, which I am compelled to admit on the fubfequent teftimony of actual demonftration, that this linking variety of con- ftitution has been the work of many years. C