Description | Charts the quantity of food devoured. Communicated to the Royal Society by Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary
Subject: Nutrition
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as '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 sucessive Days, who labour'd under a canine appetite, at Black Barnsley in Yorkshire'
Read 25 April 1745 |