PICKLED ALIVE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 January 1928, Page 5

PICKLED ALIVE.

A SHROPSHIRE WOMAN. DRINKS VINEGAR. FOR 30 YEARS. Press Association -Electric Xelegraph-Copyrighl (Received Tuesday, 5.45 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. '•'Pickled alive,” says Dr. Wring in tiie ‘‘British Medical Journal,” ‘‘is the only description of a ■woman in Shropshire who had consumed daily for 30 years a quart bottle of vinegar. She once weighed 112 pounds, which was reduced to 33lbs. When the doctor was summoned she had been foodless for live weeks. Her hands, forearms, feet and legs were almost black. There were no pulsations in the arteries below the elbows and knees, though she was mentally alert. There wqre no signs of malignant disease, but the digestive organs had reached a state completely functionless—in fact, she was as nearly as possible pickled alive, and died in the hospital 4S hours later.”