THE AMERICAN FASTING GIRL.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 24, 30 June 1888, Page 2

THE AMERICAN FASTING GIRL.

. A Buffalo telegram in the Chicago Tribune of the 14th April says : — The village of Attica, near here, is greatly excited over the case of Emma Toms, a young woman who goes into trances, the length of which she tells beforehand. Emma sunk in her present sleep over one month ago— Sunday, March 11, at 8.25 Jp.m. She had lain awake eight consecutive days and nights, partaking during that time of more nourishment than in all the six months of her unconscious illness, the amount being about a glassful of milk, administered in teaspoonfuls. During her present trance the physician has managed to force between her lips a f ew teaspoonfuls of the liquid, but this is a difficult - f oat, asr she rarely parts her lips. When closed her teeth are firm as a V3 r oe, any effort to pry them open proving useless. During the first few days of her sleep her body was somewhat flushed, her right hand moving as usual, but her delirious whisperings becameless frequent audscarcely audible. She now lies almost perfeotly still, her arms and legs being white and cold and pulse feeble, being ratod, in the. absence of a chronometer, at 65 -beats per minute. Her face is the only warm part of her body, being flushed with alternating fever. "WTien some time ago she predicted that she would sleep thirty days and perhaps longer, she did so without the least hesitation. She acted like a person who knew what was about to transpire, uttering it confidently an*! witli earnest eyss. . * .