A LONG FAST.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 20 April 1881, Page 3

A LONG FAST.

An extraordinary fast is thus reported in a recent issue the New York World :'— Martha Terhnne, spinster, fifty-nine years old, waa buried from her house in the queer old-fashioned Hamlet of Lodi. New Jersey, recently, having died of the effects of a. fast which her friends say lasted eleven weeks, On September #th last Mrs Gertrude Terbune, tier mother, was stricken with paralysis for tbe third time. Miss Martha was then in good health, but was terribly shocked by tbe occurrence and took to her bed, and thereafter refused all nourishment though she did accept, under semicotercion, a very trifling amount of food during the first four weeks. After a few days she left her bed and went about the house part of the time but never fully recovered. The shock occurred precisely seven weeks before her death. Four weeks afterwards ehe tasted as her relatives avouch, the last food passed her lips, and the remaining seven weeks or fortyanine days she fasted absolutely. Dr. John Soper was called io, but she would have no medicine, Mrd Stephen Massey, a neighbor, who is au a ma" teur homoeopathic physician, did induce the patient to take a few of her pills to allay the fever brought on by tbe longcontinued fast.