Cure for Voluntary Starvation.
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Cure for Voluntary Starvation.


The following account Of the most sin.
gular cure ofa crazy genius, who believing
himself dead, would not eat, is told in tho
London Lancet by correspondent of that
Journal: gs4


"Wh'lst residing in Rome paid a visit
to the lunatlc asylum there, and among
the most remarkable patients one was
pointed out to me who had been saved
with much difficulty from inflicting death
upon himself by voluntary starvation in
bed, under an impression that he was de-.
funct, declaring that dead people never ate.
1t was soon Obvious to all that the issue
must be fatal, when the humane doctor be.
thought him of the following stratagem.
t1aif dozen of'the attendants, dressed in
white shrouds, and their faces and hands
covered with chalk, were marched in sin.
gle tile. with dead silence into a room nd.
Joining that of the patient, where he OBJ
served them, through door purposely left
open, SIT down 10 hearty meal. sHalloa'
said he that was deceased, presently, to an
attendant, swho be they?' dead men,,
was the reply sWhat = reioined the
corpse, do dead men eat?' sTo be sure
they Go. as you see.' answered the atten-
dant. 'lf that's The case,' exclaimed the
defunc', sFlI join them, for I'm famished.,
and thus instantly was the spell brolxenn


The king Of England took from iIe poclx-
cts ofsubiects $4,OO0.OO0, 900 to replace
the Bourbons on the throne Of France
The interest of the money thus wrenched
from the hard, lean hands Of tho toif;no
people of Grea, Britain, would. accord;ne
TO calculation OF Eihu Burriit. build
10000 miles Of railroad every year. until
The habiiable globe were iniersected bv
the iron highways for The nations.
"Yoa are coward, !" said q low London
er 10 poor countryman who had refused
20 hah. ai genl ii9ia eaesluaF 40
''Noi beant /" said ihs couniryman. 81
ave !, ave nothing 10 do with cows, I'm ! shsp,


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