A PROTRACTED FAST
SIX WEEKS WITHOUT FOOD. WOMAN’S NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT. (Prow Association—Bj Telegraph—Copyright.! LONDON, March 10. (Received March 11, at 9 p.m.) Medical interest has been aroused by a fast which Lady Fisher, wife of Sir Warren Fisher, permanent secretary of the Treasury, has broken after a duration of 42 days, during which period she had nothing beyond water and orange juice. Last night she had the first pang of hunger upon which she expressed a desire for brown bread and butter. The superintendent in charge of the institution cl which Lady Fisher is an inmate declares that the desire after a fast is always for natural food. Lady Fisher was allowed diluted milk, gradually working np to to natural milk until a week has elapsed, when she will be allowed brown bread. Throughout the first five weeks of the fast Lady Fisher danced and took long walks and was generally physicaly activle. She declared that she was never better in her life. A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19736, 12 March 1926, Page 9
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167A PROTRACTED FAST Otago Daily Times, Issue 19736, 12 March 1926, Page 9
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