a Woman living •without Food or Drink. 3 
ceeded by a fever of about a week’s continuance, and of 
which fhe recovered fo flowiy that fhe had not been out 
of doors till fix weeks after the crifis ; when, without the 
knowledge of her parents or any of the family (who 
were all bulled in the harveft-fiekl) fire Hole out of the 
houfe, and bound the corn of a ridge before they ob- 
ferved her. On that fame evening fhe took to her bed, 
complaining much of her heart and head ; and fince, file 
lias never rifen out of it except when lifted, has feldom 
fpoken a word, and has had fo little craving for food, 
that at firft it was by downright compulfion her parents 
could get her to take as much as would fupport a fuck- 
ing infant : afterwards fhe gradually fell off from taking 
even that fmall quantity ; infomuch that, at Whitfun- 
tide 1763, flie totally refufed food and drink, and her jaw 
became fo fall locked, that it was with the greateft diffi- 
culty her father was able with a knife or other methods 
to open her teeth fo as to admit a little thin gruel or whey, 
and of which fo much generally run out at the corners 
of her mouth, that they could not be fenfible that any 
of it had been fwallowed. 
Much about this time, that is, about four years ago, 
they got a bottle of the water from a noted medicinal 
fpring in Brea-mar, of which they endeavoured to get 
her to fwallow a part, by pouring fome out of a fpoon 
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