Charles Domery, another famous polyphagus, ate in one day, under medical supervision, 4 pounds of raw cow's teat, 10 pounds of raw beef and 2 pounds of candle. (Wilson, G. H. (1807). The eccentric mirror. Vol. 2. J. Cundee. p. 29.) He consumed four to five pounds of grass a day when meat ran short, and is said to have devoured 174 cats in one year. (de Curzon, Alfred (July 1924). "Les Français en Angleterre". La Nouvelle Revue (in French). & Corry, John; Troughton, Thomas (1810). W. Robinson (ed.). he history of Liverpool: from the earliest authenticated period down to the present times. . p. 227.)
Merycism is "a phenomenon quite similar to rumination in bovids; it consists in consciously or unconsciously pushing food that has already reached the stomach back into the mouth". (Decary, Raymond (1930). "Un magicien malgache; mérycisme ou simulation". Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (in French). 1 (1): 1–3. doi:10.3406/bmsap.1930.9257.) Circus "merycists" have practiced regurgitating larger and larger objects, starting, for example, according to Harry Houdini, with very small potatoes. (Houdini, Harry (1920). Miracle Mongers and Their Methods. E. P. Dutton & Company. pp. 159–168.) The exercise can be dangerous, however. Alexandre de Hübner reports seeing a circus performer in China "actually swallow half a dozen small cups of fine porcelain and return them after a few minutes", while his comrade "after swallowing the cups could not return them, and died in excruciating pain". (von Hübner, Joseph Alexander (1873). Promenade autour du monde (in French). Hachette. pp. 242–243, t. 2.)
The editor of Les Derniers Contes de Charles-Philippe de Chennevières-Pointel, known as Jean de Falaise, humorously notes that "The town of Falaise has the glory of having produced a number of beings of monstrous configuration, either externally or internally. To mention only the best-known, these two who, at the time of the Empire, showed themselves as albinos in the Passage Delorme in Paris, and of the same period, was the famous Jacques de Falaise, who swallowed, with incomparable ease, rats, swords, vipers, flaming guts, and who, like all creators of a genre, has not been surpassed by any imitator; finally, and most recently, that marvellous child from Falaise, who ran all over the kingdom, and whose four limbs offered phenomenal extremities." (Chennevières-Pointel, Charles-Philippe de (1860). Les Derniers contes de Jean de Falaise. Poulet-Malassis et de Broise. p. 103.)
Charles Domery, another famous polyphagus, ate in one day, under medical supervision, 4 pounds of raw cow's teat, 10 pounds of raw beef and 2 pounds of candle. (Wilson, G. H. (1807). The eccentric mirror. Vol. 2. J. Cundee. p. 29.) He consumed four to five pounds of grass a day when meat ran short, and is said to have devoured 174 cats in one year. (de Curzon, Alfred (July 1924). "Les Français en Angleterre". La Nouvelle Revue (in French). & Corry, John; Troughton, Thomas (1810). W. Robinson (ed.). he history of Liverpool: from the earliest authenticated period down to the present times. . p. 227.)
Charles Domery, another famous polyphagus, ate in one day, under medical supervision, 4 pounds of raw cow's teat, 10 pounds of raw beef and 2 pounds of candle. (Wilson, G. H. (1807). The eccentric mirror. Vol. 2. J. Cundee. p. 29.) He consumed four to five pounds of grass a day when meat ran short, and is said to have devoured 174 cats in one year. (de Curzon, Alfred (July 1924). "Les Français en Angleterre". La Nouvelle Revue (in French). & Corry, John; Troughton, Thomas (1810). W. Robinson (ed.). he history of Liverpool: from the earliest authenticated period down to the present times. . p. 227.)
Merycism is "a phenomenon quite similar to rumination in bovids; it consists in consciously or unconsciously pushing food that has already reached the stomach back into the mouth". (Decary, Raymond (1930). "Un magicien malgache; mérycisme ou simulation". Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (in French). 1 (1): 1–3. doi:10.3406/bmsap.1930.9257.) Circus "merycists" have practiced regurgitating larger and larger objects, starting, for example, according to Harry Houdini, with very small potatoes. (Houdini, Harry (1920). Miracle Mongers and Their Methods. E. P. Dutton & Company. pp. 159–168.) The exercise can be dangerous, however. Alexandre de Hübner reports seeing a circus performer in China "actually swallow half a dozen small cups of fine porcelain and return them after a few minutes", while his comrade "after swallowing the cups could not return them, and died in excruciating pain". (von Hübner, Joseph Alexander (1873). Promenade autour du monde (in French). Hachette. pp. 242–243, t. 2.)
The term polyphage is "derived from πολυς, numerous, and φαγω, I eat"; Pierre-François Percy and Charles Nicolas Laurent "express by this name the eaters by profession, those gluttons whom nothing can satiate, and who, not very delicate about the choice of dishes, always find them good enough if they are abundant enough to satisfy their voracity. (Percy, Pierre-François; Laurent, Charles Nicolas (1820). "Polyphage". Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Panckouche. p. 256.)
The term polyphage is "derived from πολυς, numerous, and φαγω, I eat"; Pierre-François Percy and Charles Nicolas Laurent "express by this name the eaters by profession, those gluttons whom nothing can satiate, and who, not very delicate about the choice of dishes, always find them good enough if they are abundant enough to satisfy their voracity. (Percy, Pierre-François; Laurent, Charles Nicolas (1820). "Polyphage". Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Panckouche. p. 256.)
The term polyphage is "derived from πολυς, numerous, and φαγω, I eat"; Pierre-François Percy and Charles Nicolas Laurent "express by this name the eaters by profession, those gluttons whom nothing can satiate, and who, not very delicate about the choice of dishes, always find them good enough if they are abundant enough to satisfy their voracity. (Percy, Pierre-François; Laurent, Charles Nicolas (1820). "Polyphage". Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Panckouche. p. 256.)
According to the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales, Bijoux was a menagerie boy at the Jardin des plantes, who "had the rather original habit of classifying animals according to the shape of their excrement", who was once seen "devouring the body of a lion that had died of illness" and who died of "indigestion after swallowing a hot loaf of bread weighing eight pounds" (de Pescay, François Fournier (1812). "Cas rares". In Panckoucke (ed.). Dictionnaire des sciences médicales (in French). . p. 199.) following a bet.
Percy, Pierre-François; Laurent, Charles Nicolas (1817). "Homophage". Dictionnaire des sciences médicales (in French). Panckouche. pp. 344–357, t. 21.
Merycism is "a phenomenon quite similar to rumination in bovids; it consists in consciously or unconsciously pushing food that has already reached the stomach back into the mouth". (Decary, Raymond (1930). "Un magicien malgache; mérycisme ou simulation". Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (in French). 1 (1): 1–3. doi:10.3406/bmsap.1930.9257.) Circus "merycists" have practiced regurgitating larger and larger objects, starting, for example, according to Harry Houdini, with very small potatoes. (Houdini, Harry (1920). Miracle Mongers and Their Methods. E. P. Dutton & Company. pp. 159–168.) The exercise can be dangerous, however. Alexandre de Hübner reports seeing a circus performer in China "actually swallow half a dozen small cups of fine porcelain and return them after a few minutes", while his comrade "after swallowing the cups could not return them, and died in excruciating pain". (von Hübner, Joseph Alexander (1873). Promenade autour du monde (in French). Hachette. pp. 242–243, t. 2.)
British clergyman Stephen Weston had a devotion to Paris. He witnessed the events of the Revolution in 1791 and 1792, but fled the French capital in mid-August of the latter year, considering it a city where one could "be killed by mistake or for six pounds". After the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, he hurried back, and during the summer of 1829, when he was in his eighties, he could be seen there daily at the theater and other places of amusement. Courtney, William Prideaux (1899). "Weston, Stephen (1747-1830)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. pp. 372–374.
Hazlitt, William (1821). "The Indian Jugglers". Table-talk. John Warren.
