An examination of the imposture of Ann Moore, called the fasting woman; illustrated by remarks on other cases of real and pretended abstinence / [A. Henderson].

  • Henderson, A. (Alexander), 1780-1863.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An examination of the imposture of Ann Moore, called the fasting woman; illustrated by remarks on other cases of real and pretended abstinence / [A. Henderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXAMINATION, &c. A Bouf four years ago, considerable in* terest was excited, by various notices in the newspapers and journals, respecting a woman of the name of Moore, an in¬ habitant of an obscure village in Stafford- shire, who, from long illness, and other causes, was reported to have lost all de¬ sire of food, and after subsisting, for many months, on remarkably small quantities of liquid aliment, to have at length acquired the art of living without any nourishment whatever. Though her bodily strength was represented as some¬ what impaired, and her person wTas de¬ scribed as exhibiting several marked proofs of prolonged abstinence; yet her countenance was said to retain the ap- B