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She was twelve years outdated, and slept most of the time. Some of the extraordinary instances on report is that of the Dutch hysteric Angelina de Vlies, forty-one years old, who continued without food from the 10th of March, 1822, to 1826. She was subject to cramps and tremors, and was very weak, and never able to rise without help. Passing over a number of different cases related by these previous authors, which range but little of their common options, we come to numerous circumstances recorded in medical publications of the eighteenth century, in all or practically all of which the lengthy quick is accompanied by some sort of disorder of the physique or thoughts. A Prof. Licetus, of Padua, near the beginning of the seventeenth century, wrote a fairly stupid folio in Latin, "On those that can dwell a long time without Food." It incorporates varied chapters, on "those that dwell eight days"; "those who reside a month"; "those that lived three months"; "those that lived from one year to eight years"; "those that lived greater than twelve years"; and ends with the story of the seven sleepers of Ephesus, who went to sleep in the reign of the Emperor Decius and woke in that of Theodosius.