Note 95 — AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE OF ANIMAL LIFE. IN THREE LECTURES, DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

The stimulus of a disease sometimes supplies the place of food in prolonging life. Mr. C. S——, a gentleman well known in Virginia, who was afflicted with a palsy, which had resisted the skill of several physicians, determined to destroy himself, by abstaining from food and drinks. He lived sixty days without eating any thing, and the greatest part of that time without tasting even a drop of water. His disease probably protracted his life thus long beyond the usual time in which death is induced by fasting. See a particular account of this case, in the first number of the second volume of Dr. Coxe's Medical Museum.