An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![that all people adimire’d how nature was thus fus- tain’d without any fenfible expanfion; fhe noe eating in a day a piece above the fize of half a crown in bread and ‘butter;. or if meat, not above the quantity of a pigeons leg at moft. She drank neither wine, ale, nor beer ; but onely water, or milk, or both mix’d: and of either of thefe fearce a fpoonful in a day; and yet fhe was a maiden of a frefh complexion, and healthy | enough: befide, as was very wel known, to many worthy perfons with whom fhe had live’d, that any greater quantitys, or different wis had allways made her fick.”’* Ia: the year 1603, was publifh’d, by: the kings. {pecial privilege, at London, by James Roberts, “* A true and admirable historie of a mayden of Confolens, in the province of Poictiers,. that,. for the {pace of three years and more, hath lived, and yet doth [live], without receiving either meat or drinke: of whom his majesty, in: per= fon, hath. had: the view, and (by his command). his beft and and chiefeft phifitians have tryed:alk means to find whether this faft or abftinence be by deceipt or no. In this history: is, alfo,. dis- courfed, whether a. man can. live many’ dayes, aa oc a eee](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
