FASTING SPECIALIST’S ORDEAL
FORTY-FIVE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. STARVATION DOCTOR’S DEMOX- • . STRATI OX. Linda. Hazzard, the “fasting specialist,” who is now serving a, sentence for the manslaughter of Miss Claire Williamson, who died as a result of the starvation cure that she underwenVat the hands of the prisoner, has just concluded a self-imposed fast of 4.5 days. “]>r. Hazzard,' ’ as she was known, undertook tliis long abstinence from food with the object of refuting the opinion expressed by medical experts at her trial that the limit of human endurance in such an ordeal was'fourteen days. Upon being weighed at the end or her fast it was found- that the woman had lost . exactly 421 b. , her present weight being 1401 -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3528, 20 May 1912, Page 3
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119FASTING SPECIALIST’S ORDEAL Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3528, 20 May 1912, Page 3
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