| Show FAMOUS FOR FASTING I A fan Who Seems to Eo Able to Exist Without Food I Will Signor Succi succumb Such hasI I been the leading question among physiologists physiolo-gists in New York city for some time as the famous faster has been making his test I of fortylive days without food He did forty days in London and nearly equal terms in other foreign cities but promised fortyfive days abstinence in New York as Dr Tanner had already done forty days His method however differs widely from Tanners for he takes considerable exercise On the l y fifteenth day of his I = fast in Paris he I went up the Eiffel towerand jitBrus t sels after a week without food he I climbed to the top of the Colonne de Congres in two and a half minutes t min-utes He also fences fen-ces and walks pjays at single SIGNOR SDCCI stick smokes etc On the other hand he takes occasional doses of an elixir of his own invention I which the attending physicians say consists I con-sists of opium licorice and a slight infusion infu-sion of hasheesli They insist that it contains I con-tains no nourishment but it soothes the II stomach and prevents that gnawing sensation sen-sation which is so painful in the first days I of n fast Signor Succis theory is much the same I as Tanners viz If you cannot get food and think you must have it and yield to the longing for it you will starve in two t j weeks or less but if you resolutely make I j 1 up your mind to do without it you can for six or seven weeks To this the Signor adds An electric force generated by my will keeps me up I absorb electricity I just as you absorb oxygen When fasting I can take any quantity of vegetable poison poi-son and it does me no harm whatever Sly brain grows much clearer as I fast and my will power stronger It is a power like galvanism and I discovered my possession pos-session of it first by accident I have increased in-creased it by practice The appointed physicians attest that there is no doubt whatever of the reality of his fast and that he is adding a valuable contribution to science He is by birth a Neapolitan a short spare man of dark complexion with bright eyes and a nervous nerv-ous manner but with strength of will apparent ap-parent in every look and gesture |
