omething about
"fasting girls" and their frauds, not excepting the sad case of poor
little Sarah Jacob. But I will make this additional proposition:--If
Miss Fancher will allow herself to be watched, day and night, for
one month, by relays of members of the New York Neurological
Society, I will give her $1,000 if at the end of that month she has
not in the meantime taken food voluntarily or as a forced measure to
save her from dying of starvation, the danger of this last
contingency to be judged of by her family physician, Dr. Speir.
These offers to remain open for acceptance till twelve o'clock M.,
December 31st. If not taken up by that time, let us hear no more in
support of Miss Fancher's mind reading or clairvoyance, or living
for a dozen or more years without food.

WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M.D.

_43 West Fifty-Fourth Street, New York, Dec. 12th, 1878._

Transcriber's Note:

Hyphenation and punctuation have been standardised. Variant
spellings have been retained. Minor typographical errors have been
corrected without note, whilst significant amendments have been
listed below:

p. 3, 'Nicholas' amended to _Nicolas_
p. 5, 'Aquaintoin' amended to _Aquitaine_
p. 5, 'predominent' amended to _predominant_
p. 6, 'Geraldus Bucoldianus' amended to _Gerardus Bucoldianus_
p. 7, 'f[oe]ces' amended to _faeces_
p. 7, 'developes' amended to _develops_
p. 7, fn. 4, '{Pasateseseon}' amended to _{Paratereseon}_
p. 7, fn. 4, added _rararum_: 'medicarum, _rararum_, novarum'
p. 7, fn. 4, 'monstrasarum' amended to _monstrosarum_
p. 8, '1567' amended to _1597_
p. 9, fn. 7, 'chirurgicae' amended to _chirurgicarum_
p. 15, 'Anne Jones' amended to _Ann Jones_
p. 16, 'f[oe]cal' amended to _faecal_
p. 26, 'f[oe]ces' amended to _faeces_
p. 31, 'Cardinal Carrafa' amended to _Cardinal Carafa_
p. 40, 'Farenheit' amended to _Fahrenheit_
p. 41, fn. 13, 'Rapport Medicale' amended to _Rapport Medical_
p. 41, fn. 13, added _de_: 'medecine _de_ Belgique'
p. 44, 'ecstacy' amended to _ecstasy_
p. 44, added _of_: 'direction _of_ M. le Cure'
p. 46, 'fecal' amended to _faecal_
p. 47, 'stigmatisations' amended to _stigmatizations_
p. 48, 'fortell' amended to _foretell_
p. 48, 'marvelous' amende