Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1898 — MILK, BEER AND SUGAR. The Diet on Which a Russian Has Lived for Twenty Years. [ARTICLE]

MILK, BEER AND SUGAR.

The Diet on Which a Russian Has Lived for Twenty Years.

There is a Jew, a native of Litsk, Russia, living in the east end of London who has fasted for 20 years, his sole daily diet during that time con-' sisting of six pints of milk, three pints 1 of beer and half a pound of Demerara | sugar. His name, says the New York ! Times, is Morris Fox. He is an excellent Talmudical scholar, and, in spite of his frugal meals, he is the most wealthy, intelligent and wide-awake j person in his quarter. He is now about , 40. At the age of 17, it appears, he caught some lingering fever which . shattered his digestive organs. He took ' many kinds of treatment from many ' physicians until his stomach became 1 inured to all medicine. ,At the Kieff ' hospital they vainly tried to cure him 1 by spongingand electrolysis; at Vienna ' his physicians included the well-known Drs. Albert and Notthnagel. His treatment at Carlsbad was a failure; then he traveled to Konigsberg, when the . physicians decided that he must live on sugar, milk and beer. lie adopted their prescription and soon regained normal hea*lth. For 20 years no solid food has passed his mouth.