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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    poflefics great'ftrcngth of mind; fte has a much larger ftock of ideas than is often found even with people who have had the advantage of a fuperior education. All the former part of her life fhe lived out at fervice in different places about the neighbourhood of her native village, and for fome time previous to her ftate of abftinence, was chiefly employed (with mofl of the poor inhabitants of Tutbury) in beating out cotton. It feems that fhe never poflefied any real religious principles, before me was at tacked with this extraordinary affliction ; bi which, happily for hep, has brought her to1 (late of true repentance. She confefles il% fhe has once through impofition paffed for a religious perfon, merely for the fake of world- r intereft, under the mafk of hypocrify ; but Viofition tended fo much to evil, iiie was tmable to conceal the deceit from the eyes of a religious perfon, with whom fhe had formed acquaintance. It is very probable that the knowledge of thefe circumftances tended more to influence, her neighbours againft her on the prefent occafion, than any other re»fci&.i— Her prefent ftate of mind is of fuch calnnefs and ferenity, and her doctrinal knowledge fo clear and unimpeachable, that it is highly pleaf- ing to every lover of religion to converfe with her. Her account of the manneif in which fhe was brought to a true fenfe of her fituation, is very artleis, the particulars of which fhe related to me as follows: During her. illncfs, a man who was p.car neighbour to her, died in a very fin-