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.
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- 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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![was fuch, that no person would come near It, nor could any one elfe befidej Mrs. Moor be pre- vailed upon to attend him. He continued eight months in that fituation, during that time ihe conftantly waited upon him, and towards the latter end of the time the fcent was so extreme- ly obnoxious, that (he was fcarcely able to en- fhe in imagination bad attached to cheefe, recurred with, fuch force, and had fuch an effe6l, that her ftomach im- mediately rejected its contents, and made her fo extreme- ly ill, that apprehenfions were tor fome time entertained it would prove lata]. It is very evident that this was entirely the effecl of imagination. Had fhe never been told of the cheefe, fhe would never have experienced the flighteit incoir** venience from eating it. The following, although it may not bear any relation to the cafe in queftion, yet it tends to prove ftill further the aflonifhing effefts ima- gination is capable of producing. A fiudent at a diifenting aeademy, who was fubjecl to dreams, went to bed one night a little fooner than his companion, who (lept with him. On his bedfellows entering the room, he difcovered that the young man was talking in his flcep, and from curiofity attentively hftened to what he was faying, and foon found from what he heard, that he dreampt he was under trial , very heavy crime. He continued to liften.andat lengthT from fome words that were fpoken, he could underfland that his companion was sentenced to be hanged. He then renamed filent, and a {hort time afterward raifing his hands out of bed he made the fame motion with them as if he had been climbing a ladder, and when fas he fuppofedj he was got up to the top, (landing up on the icaffold, he made a very affetting fpeech to the peo- ple, and in the moft folemn manner pleaded his inroj cence Having finifhed his fpeech, he flatted up with a violent ftruggle, and inflantly expired. His weepin* companion in vain attempted to awake him Alas the ttrong power of his imagination had fo worked upon bis mind, as to esufe immediate death.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21114808_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
