There were
several livid spots on his legs and one toe was gangrenous. After
some time they amputated the toe. The power in the lower
extremities soon returned.
In relating his travels in the Levant, Hasselquist mentions 1000
Abyssinians who became destitute of provisions while en route to
Cairo, and who lived two months on gum arabic alone, arriving at
their destination without any unusual sickness or mortality. Dr.
Franklin lived on bread and water for a fortnight, at the rate of
ten pounds per week, and maintained himself stout and healthy.
Sir John Pringle knew a lady of ninety who lived on pure fat
meat. Glower of Chelmsford had a patient who lived ten years on a
pint of tea daily, only now or then chewing a half dozen raisins
or almonds, but not swallowing them. Once in long intervals she
took a little bread.
Brassavolus describes a younger daughter of Frederick King of
Naples who lived entirely without meat, and could not endure even
the taste of it, as often as she put any in her mouth she fell
fainting. The monks of Monte Santo (Mount Athos) never touched
animal food, but lived on vegetables, olives, end cheese. In 1806
one of them at the age of one hundred and twenty was healthy.
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