| Description | Brown describes the case of a small 102-year-old woman in Yarmouth [Isle of Wight, England] who experienced some confusion in recognising family members. Brown remarks that the most interesting aspect of her case is that she experiences 'a kinde [kind] of Boulimia or dogge appetite', in which she eats and drinks large amounts day and night, never vomiting or experiencing diarrhoea as a result. Brown states that this is the oldest example of 'sal esurinum chymicorum', or 'the hungry salt'.
Subject: Medicine
Read at the Royal Society on 1 February 1672. |