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Concept

Fasting

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  • A full exposure and confession of Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury / [Ann Moore].
  • Complete history of the case of the Welsh fasting-girl (Sara Jacob) with comments thereon : and observations on death from starvation.
  • A discourse upon prodigious abstinence: occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire demosell: proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat and drink. With an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / By John Reynolds. Humbly offered to the Royall society.
  • Some account of Mary Thomas of Tanyralt in Merionethshire, who has existed many years without taking food: and of Ann Moore, commonly called the fasting woman of Tutbury. Accompanied with portraits and illustrative etchings / By James Ward.
  • Some account of Mary Thomas of Tanyralt in Merionethshire, who has existed many years without taking food: and of Ann Moore, commonly called the fasting woman of Tutbury. Accompanied with portraits and illustrative etchings / By James Ward.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Apparent prolongation of the life span of rats by intermittent fasting / Anton J. Carlson and Frederick Hoelzel.

    Carlson, Anton J. (Anton Julius), 1875-1956. | Date: 1977
    • Books
    • Online

    The autobiography of Elizabeth Squirrell of Shottisham, and selections from her writings : together with an examination and defence of her statements relative to her sufferings, blindness, deafness, entire abstinence from food and drink during twenty-five weeks, and other extraordinary phenomena: also facts and opinions illustrative and suggestive / by one of her watchers.

    Squirrell, Elizabeth, 1838- | Date: 1853
    • Books

    "A wonderful little girl" : the true story of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh fasting girl / Siân Busby.

    Busby, Siân. | Date: 2003
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    "Shall she famish then?" : female food refusal in early modern England / Nancy Gutierrez.

    Gutierrez, Nancy A., 1951- | Date: [2003], ©2003
    • Ephemera

    By the king : A proclamation for a general fast / William R.

    William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837. | Date: 1832
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