Extract of a Letter from Mr. B_ B_ r, Containing an Account, in Pounds and Ounces, of the Surprising Quantities of Food Devoured by a Boy, 12 Years Old, in 6 Successive Days, Who Labour'd under a Canine Appetite, at Black Barnsley in Yorkshire. Communicated by Dr. Mortimer, Secret. R. S.

Cells being partly open, containing some of the Embryo's in them. Fig. 5. Part of a wrought, or wreathed tubulated Clay-Nest, as it appears in Front on the Outside. Fig. 6. The Backside of the same, where it adhered to the Timber-Building or Pale; some of the Cells being open, disclose the Spiders lodged in them. Fig. 7. Part of such another Nest as Fig. 5. Fig. 8. The Backside of Fig. 7, in which some of the Cells being open discover Spiders lodged in them. V. Extract of a Letter from Mr. B--- B---r, containing an Account, in Pounds and Ounces, of the surprising Quantities of Food devoured by a Boy, 12 Years old, in 6 successive Days, who labour'd under a Canine Appetite, at Black Barnsley in Yorkshire. Communicated by Dr. Mortimer, Secret. R. S. April 15. 1745. Read April 25. THE Boy was regular as other Children, till about a Year ago, when this extraordinary Craving of Appetite first began; which afflicts him to such a Degree, that (they tell us) if he was not fed as he called out for it, he would gnaw the very Flesh off his own Bones; so that, when awake, he is constantly devouring; it can hardly be said eating, because nothing passes his Stomach, all is thrown up again. | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |----------|--------|----------| | 6 4 Water | 3 0 Rye | 8 0 Milk | | 2 0 Milk | 2 0 Milk | 1 4 Bread | | 3 0 Rye | 0 4 Sugar | 2 0 Water | | 0 4 Sugar | 2 0 Bread | 2 0 Milk | | 0 8 Treacle | 4 0 Milk | 4 8 Bread | | 1 0 Bread | 2 0 Water | 2 0 Milk | | 3 0 Milk | 2 0 Milk | 1 0 Mutton | | 0 8 Butter | 1 8 Meat-Pye | 6 8 Water | | 0 4 Sugar | 8 0 Milk | 2 0 Milk | | 1 0 Beef | 2 0 Meat-Pye | 1 2 Rye | | 0 4 Bread | 4 0 Water | 2 0 Beer | | 6 4 Milk | 2 8 Small-Beer | 1 4 Pudding | | 0 8 Bread | 0 12 Pudding | 0 12 Veal | | 6 4 Water | 0 3 Mutton | 0 4 Cheese | | 3 0 Milk | 0 12 Bread | 0 8 Treacle | | 1 0 Apple-Pye | 4 0 Milk | 0 12 Bread | | 1 4 Pudding | 2 0 Water | 0 8 Water | | 1 0 Veal | 2 0 Milk | 4 0 Broth | | 0 8 Meat-Pye | 2 0 Water | 2 0 Water | | 6 8 Beer and Water | 1 0 Bread | 2 0 Milk | | 7 1 Milk | 0 8 Sugar | 0 4 Sugar | | 3 0 Bread | 1 4 Meat-Pye | 4 0 Beer | | 3 0 Milk | 2 0 Water | 1 0 Mutton | | 3 0 Water | 2 0 Milk | 1 0 Veal | | 1 0 Bread | 4 0 Milk | 0 12 Fruit | | 2 0 Milk | 2 0 Beer | —— | | 1 4 Beef | 0 10 Bread | 58 8 | | 4 0 Small Beer | 1 0 Fruit | —— | | 1 0 Fruit | 2 0 Milk | —— | Total: 69 8 Aaa 2 | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | |--------|--------|---------| | Rye | Bread | Bread | | Milk | Milk | Milk | | Sugar | Beer | Butter | | Water | Milk | Water | | Bread | Water | Milk | | Milk | Butter | Hasty-pudg. | | Water | Bread | Water | | Milk | Hasty-pudg. | Treacle | | Rye | Water | Meat-Pye | | Milk | Mutton | Mutton | | Broth | Bread | Pudding | | Pudding| Beef | Water | | Beer | Potatoes | Beer | | Mutton | Pudding | Milk | | Water | Water | Water | | Milk | Milk | Beef | | Bread | Bread | Mutton | | Rye | Treacle | Beer | | Milk | Bread | Sugar | | Butter | Water | Fruit | | Sugar | Milk | | | Milk | Potatoes | | | Water | Milk | | | Milk | | | | Beer | | | | Bread | | | | Milk | | | | Fruit | | | | Mutton | | | Total 384 2 VI.