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Singular Case of Ann Moore, 
[Oct. If 
‘‘ Yes, two gentlemen were with you, 
one was a quaker/' * 
After I had been in the room some 
time, I requested permission to ask her 
questions I had previously penned down 
in the morning, and to enter her replies 
in the same manner, to which solicita- 
tions she readily consented. I ques¬ 
tioned her as follows: 
Question. How long have you, Ann 
Moore, lived without eating solid food ? 
Answer. It was four years the 17th 
of March last.f 
Q, When did you discontinue the use 
of liquids? 
A. About the 16th of September fol¬ 
lowing. 
Q. Have you at any time since then 
felt the sense of hunger, or the disposi¬ 
tion to hunger, or is food desirable? 
A, I feci no hunger or disposition for 
food, neither did I for many years before 
I declined eating, 
Q. When was it that sleep became no 
longer practicable? 
A. Three years next October. 
Q. Did you lose the power of sleep 
gradually, or was it taken from you sud¬ 
denly ? 
A. Before I went to Mr. Jackson^s, 
and w hile I was at his house, (when I was 
kept sixteen days and nights with a watch 
continually attending me) I slept pretty 
well three or four hours together; but 
8oon after my removal to my own house 
I lost the power of sleep, and since then 
J have not known what it is to enjoy 
sound sleep. I caught a cold I believe 
in my removal, which prevented my 
sleeping. 
Q. Do you at any time feel an inclina¬ 
tion to sleep ? 
A. No—though I sometimes doze, yet 
never so as to forget myself. I never doze 
in the day time. 
Q. Do you ever feel weary or fa¬ 
tigued ? 
A, I constantly have a pain on the left 
side, of iny body, and round the back and 
lop of my head, but never feel sleepy. 
Q. Does your body undergo any alter¬ 
ation of heat and cold? 
A. According as I am in pain, when 
* This circumstance convinced me of the 
powers of her memory, for, on the 25th of 
September, 1810, I visited Ann Moore, in 
company with a brother and one of the So¬ 
ciety of Friends. 
•j- On the 17th of July, 1807, she took I 
fc?lisye a few black currants. 
the pain is violent I feel feverish and 
hot. 
Q. Do you ever perspire? 
A. No—except since my left hand has 
been closed, which sometimes has a little 
dew or moisture in it, as at present. (I 
pressed my finger into the hand and 
found a gentle perspiration.—She conti¬ 
nued to say, my body never perspires.) 
Q. Do you feel in this respect no difp 
ference between tlie summer^s heat and 
winterns cold? 
A, I feel the same in summer as in 
winter, and need no more clothing than 
what I now have. 
Q. When were your last evacuations? 
A. It is four years tlie 3rd of this 
month since I had the last stool, and 
two years and about five or six months 
since I made urine. 
Q. Have you any sensibility in you? 
legs or feet? 
A, No.—(She requested me to feel her 
feet, which I did, and observed to her 
they appeared much the same as when I 
before saw them, near eleven months 
since. I pressed them hard, she said it 
produced no sensation to her mind ; they 
were cold and apparently lifeless. She 
sits with her legs under her, and her feet 
are brought to the left side of the body). 
Q. Do you ever lie down in bed ? 
A. It,is two years since I laid down ift 
bed last February, 
Q. Do you constantly sit up in the po¬ 
sition you now do ? 
A, Sometimes I rest my head on the 
pillows you here see; bat never lie down, 
—I cannot. 
Q. How long have you had fits, and' 
what kind are they? 
A. Eighteen weeks the day after to¬ 
morrow ; the fits are hysterical, some, 
days I have had five or six, I have had 
three fits co-day. The closing of the hand 
Mas produced by these fits. 
Q. Is your mind generally calm and 
happy? 
A. For the most part it is so, except 
when ray pains are violent. 
Q. I perceive you have the Bible by 
you, don't the reading of it afford you 
consolation ? 
A. Yes,—it is the best companion I 
find in this world. 
Q. What views liave you of God, reli¬ 
gion, and a future world? 
A. My views are fixed on Christ, and 
him alone ; when I leave this world I 
liope, (mind yoUy Isay^ Ikope^) to go to 
his glory. 
Q, Hay#. 
