Show DB TANKERS fast is still the great journalistic topic every newspaper m the east containing long accounts of the progress made by the doctor each day The test is treated in every manner seriously humorously and sarcastically but the doctor continues to hold out One effect of the trial so far has been to cause research into like cases in the past and the array of instances of fasters brought forward is something remarkable tc the average individual There are several cases where individuals have fasted forty days but in all or nearly all they have died after commencing to take food again It is more than probable that Dr Tanner will succeed I suc-ceed in fasting the forty days but it is when he resumes the taking of sustenance that his condition will be most anxiously watched as it will be then that his severest trial is likely to > > 9 v I oocur S 5 r 4 1 |