a Woman living without Food or Drink. 9 
proportion to the ingejla ; that fhe. never attempted to 
fpeak; that her jaws were Hill faft -locked, her ham- 
ftrings tight as before, and her eyes lhut. On my open- 
ing her eye-lids I found the eye-balls turned up under 
the edge of the os front is, her countenance ghaftly, her 
complexion pale, her fkin liar i veiled and dry, and her 
whole perfon rather emaciated ; her pulfe with the ut- 
moft difficulty to be felt. She feemed fenfible and 
tractable in every thing, except in taking food ; for, at 
my requeft, the went through her different exercifes, 
fpinning on the diftaff, and crawling about on her hams, 
by the wall of the houfe, with the help of her hands : 
but when ffie was delired to eat, fhe fhewed the greateft 
reluctance, and indeed cried before ffie yielded; and this 
was no more than, as I have faid, to take a few crumbs as 
to feed a bird, and to fuck half a fpoonful of milk from 
the palm of her hand. On the whole, her exigence was 
little lefs wonderful now than when I firft faw her, when 
ffie had not fwallowed the fmalleft particle of food for 
years together. I attributed her thinnefs and wan com- 
plexion, that is the great change of her looks from what 
I had firft feen when fixed to her bed, to her exhaufting 
too much of the faliva by fpinning flax on the diftaff, 
and therefore recommended her being totally confined 
to fpinning wool: this ffie does with equal dexterity 
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